Breakouts
Breakout boards make it easy to prototype with surface-mount ICs, sensors, displays, and interfaces by bringing tiny pins out to breadboard-friendly headers. Whether you're working with ADCs, OLEDs, TFT displays, or coin cell holders, our range has you covered.
Perfect for makers, students, and engineers across Australia — get your prototyping essentials delivered fast so you can spend more time building and less time waiting.
Light-dependent Resistor Sensor Module
SKU: LB-24-LIGHT | Brand: Little Bird
Light-dependent resistors are electronic components whose resistance changes with light intensity. They are also called LDRs, photoresistors, or photoconductors. It has four pins:3.3V : While 'VCC'...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
RFID Reader with Cards Kit- 13.56MHz
SKU: EC-CRF1356KIT | Brand: Elecrow
This RFID kit includes a 13.56M RF reader module, which use the RC522 IC, plus 2 S50 RFID cards to help you learn and add the 13.56 MHz RF transition to your project. The MF RC522 is a highly integrated transmission m...
Delivered by Tue 7 Jul
Pico - Dual-Expander IC Test Board
SKU: WS-19343 | Brand: Waveshare
A dual GPIO expander board for the Raspberry Pi Pico that duplicates all GPIO pins into two sets of 2×20 male headers. Plug your Pico into the centre female socket, then connect two expansion modules simultaneously — ...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Little Bird PN532 NFC MODULE
SKU: LB-LR0214-148A | Brand: Little Bird
Product Overview: Our PN532 NFC module is based on a common board design for the PN532 chip used in near field communication (NFC) applications in the 13.56MHz frequency range with a maximum communication distance of...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Adafruit I2S MEMS Microphone Breakout - SPH0645LM4H
SKU: AF-3421 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit I2S MEMS Microphone Breakout features the SPH0645LM4H, a tiny digital MEMS microphone with a purely digital I2S output. Unlike analogue electret microphones, this mic sends digital audio data directly to ...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
Adafruit Micro SD SPI or SDIO Card Breakout Board - 3V ONLY!
SKU: AF-4682 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Micro SD SPI or SDIO Card Breakout Board gives you fast microSD card access using either standard SPI or the higher-speed SDIO protocol. Unlike SPI-only breakouts, this board exposes the full SDIO bus wit...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
USB to TTL 4-pin Wire
SKU: WS-7965 | Brand: Waveshare
A USB to TTL serial adapter cable with an embedded PL2303 converter chip. This 1-metre cable provides a simple way to add serial communication to your projects, connecting a standard USB-A port to 3.3V TTL-level UART ...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Assembled Pi T-Cobbler Plus - GPIO Breakout [Pi A+, B+, Pi 2, Pi 3, Zero]
SKU: AF-2028 | Brand: Adafruit
This is the assembled version of the Pi T-Cobbler Plus. It only works with the Raspberry Pi Model Zero, A+, B+, Pi 2,Pi 3! (Any Pi with 2x20 connector)The Raspberry Pi has landed on the Maker World like a 40...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Pico - 10DOF-IMU IC Test Board
SKU: WS-19358 | Brand: Waveshare
A 10-DOF IMU sensor expansion board designed for the Raspberry Pi Pico. Combines a 9-axis ICM20948 motion sensor (gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer) with an LPS22HB barometric pressure sensor, all communicating o...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
RS232 To TTL Converter Module MAX3232
SKU: EC-CIN3232RT | Brand: Elecrow
This module can be used to convert the RS232 voltage of PC to TTL voltage that used by microcontroller. Directly plug the DB9 connector your PC then you can communicate with the microcontrollers using the Serial port....
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
VL53L1X Time of Flight (ToF) Sensor Breakout
SKU: PR-PIM373 | Brand: Little Bird
The VL53L1X Time of Flight sensor breakout uses a low-power laser to measure distances with excellent accuracy and speed. With a detection range of 4 cm to 4 metres and up to 50 Hz sampling frequency, it's ideal for p...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Light and Colour Sensor
SKU: LB-LS1697 | Brand: Little Bird
This is the Light and Colour Sensor, a small breakout board with a built in APDS-9960 sensor that offers ambient light and colour measuring, proximity detection, and touch-less gesture sensing. With this Light...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Badger 2040 + accessories
SKU: PR-PIM610 | Brand: Little Bird
A hackable, programmable badge with E Ink® display, powered by Raspberry Pi RP2040. In honour of Raspberry Pi's 10th birthday, we've fused a RP2040 microcontroller with an EPD display to make a stylishly monochr...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Adafruit VL53L4CD Time of Flight Distance Sensor - ~1 to 1300mm
SKU: AF-5396 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit VL53L4CD is a Time-of-Flight (ToF) distance sensor from ST that combines short-range and medium-range sensing in one chip. It measures from approximately 1 mm right up to 1300 mm, bridging the gap between...
Delivered by Mon 13 Jul
Pico HAT Hacker
SKU: PR-PIM300 | Brand: Little Bird
The Pico HAT Hacker is an ultra-thin breakout board that gives you full access to all 40 GPIO pins on your Raspberry Pi. At just 0.8 mm thick, it solders directly onto the Pi's header pins while leaving enough pin hei...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Little Bird L3G4200D based 3 Axis Gyro
SKU: LB-LR0401 | Brand: Little Bird
Product Overview The L3G4200D Gyroscope Module is a low power 3-Axis angular rate sensor with temperature data. The gyroscope shows the rate of change in rotation on its X,Y and Z axes. Temperature output data and...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
SparkFun Qwiic Adapter
SKU: SF-DEV-14495 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Qwiic Adapter provides the perfect means to make any old I2C board into a Qwiic-enabled board. This adapter breaks out the I2C pins from the Qwiic connectors to pins that you can easily solder with you...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Adafruit PCA9546 4-Channel STEMMA QT / Qwiic I2C Multiplexer
SKU: AF-5664 | Brand: Adafruit
Need to use multiple I2C devices that share the same address? The PCA9546 4-Channel STEMMA QT / Qwiic I2C Multiplexer lets you connect up to four same-address I2C devices with completely solderless wiring. Five JST SH...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Atmospheric Pressure Sensor Module
SKU: LB-24-ATMOS | Brand: Little Bird
A compact barometric pressure and temperature sensor module that communicates over I2C. Ideal for weather stations, altitude estimation, and environmental monitoring projects with micro:bit, Arduino, or other microcon...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
SparkFun 9DoF IMU Breakout - ICM-20948 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-15335 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun 9DoF IMU Breakout brings InvenSense's ICM-20948 9-axis motion tracking sensor to a Qwiic-enabled breakout board with an on-board logic level shifter and broken-out GPIO pins. The ICM-20948 is an extremely...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
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