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.
IR Reflectance Sensor - QRE1113
SKU: SF-COM-09542 | Brand: SparkFun
The QRE1113 is a small IR reflectance sensor. This sensor is often used in line following robots because, if it can sense if a surface is white or black. There are four pins on the QRE1113 - two control the IR em...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
SparkFun Line Sensor Breakout - QRE1113 (Digital)
SKU: SF-ROB-09454 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun QRE1113 Line Sensor Breakout (Digital) is a compact IR reflectance sensor board that outputs a digital signal based on surface reflectivity. It uses a capacitor discharge circuit — the faster the 10 nF ca...
Delivered by Tue 25 Aug
Gravity: LTC4316 I2C Address Shifter - I2C Conflict Resolver for Arduino & Raspberry Pi
SKU: DF-DFR1193 | Brand: DFRobot
The Gravity LTC4316 I2C Address Shifter resolves I2C address conflicts, allowing multiple sensors with the same address to operate on a single bus. Insert this module between your microcontroller and sensor – address ...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
Adafruit SPA06-003 Temperature + Pressure Sensor
SKU: AF-6420 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit SPA06-003 is an affordable barometric pressure and temperature sensor from Goertek, ideal for basic environmental sensing and DIY quadcopter builds. It measures 300–1100 hPa (approximately −500 to +9000 m...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
Adafruit STHS34PF80 IR Presence / Motion Sensor
SKU: AF-6426 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit STHS34PF80 is a compact IR presence and motion sensor that detects human and animal presence up to 4 metres away — without requiring a lens. Unlike traditional chunky PIR sensors with simple digital outpu...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
RockBLOCK 9704 - Patch Antenna - SparkFun Electronics
SKU: SF-WRL-28896 | Brand: SparkFun
The RockBLOCK 9704 by Ground Control is a breakout board for the new Iridium 9704 including a built-in patch antenna and a supercap charger to enable low power operation. If you need low data rate connectiv...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
Adafruit STSPIN220 Stepper Motor Driver Breakout Board
SKU: AF-6353 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit STSPIN220 Stepper Motor Driver Breakout makes controlling bipolar stepper motors simple with a GPIO-only interface — just two pins (DIR and STEP) are all you need. It defaults to 1/16 microstepping and su...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
IP68 Underwater Ultrasonic Obstacle Avoidance Sensor (3m, UART)
SKU: DF-SEN0598 | Brand: DFRobot
An IP68-rated ultrasonic obstacle avoidance sensor specifically designed for underwater applications. With a measurement range of 2–300cm and UART output, this compact sensor enables underwater vehicles and robots to ...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
Adafruit Reversible USB Type A Plug Connector Breakout
SKU: AF-6001 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Reversible USB Type A Plug Connector Breakout breaks out a reversible USB Type A plug to breadboard-friendly pins. The connector uses a thin centre contact so it can be plugged in either way — no more gue...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
Adafruit USB Type C Power Delivery Dummy - I2C or Switchable
SKU: AF-5991 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit USB Type C Power Delivery Dummy (I2C or Switchable) lets you tap into USB-C Power Delivery to get 5V, 9V, 12V, 15V, 18V, or 20V from any compatible USB-C charger or wall adapter — no soldering required. B...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
Adafruit DC Power BFF Add-On for QT Py
SKU: AF-5882 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit DC Power BFF Add-On lets you power your QT Py or Xiao development board from a DC source up to 20V. The on-board MPM3610 integrated buck converter steps down the input to 5V at up to 1A, with no heat sink...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
2-Channel Level Converter (12V to 5V)
SKU: DF-DFR0912 | Brand: DFRobot
The 2-Channel Level Converter translates 12V signals down to 5V using optocoupler isolation, making it easy to interface industrial sensors and PLC signals with 5V microcontrollers like Arduino. It supports common ano...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
Fermion: MEMS Gas Sensor - MiCS-2714 (Breakout)
SKU: DF-SEN0441 | Brand: DFRobot
This is a hydrogen and nitrogen oxide gas concentration sensor launched by DFRobot. The sensor uses MEMS technology to support gas concentration detection of NO, NO2 and H2. The matching sample code integrates the co...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
Hydrogen Sulfide Gas Sensor - MQ-136
SKU: SF-SEN-17052 | Brand: SparkFun
The MQ-136 is a Hydrogen Sulfide detection sensor with a sensing range of 1 - 200ppm. The sensing element is SnO2, which has lower conductivity in clean air. When H₂S gas exists, the sensor’s conductivity gets higher ...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
Ammonia Gas Sensor - MQ-137
SKU: SF-SEN-17053 | Brand: SparkFun
The MQ-137 is an ammonia (NH3) gas sensor from Winsen, designed to detect ammonia concentrations in the air. The sensing element is tin dioxide (SnO2), which has lower conductivity in clean air and increases in conduc...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
74AHCT14 - Logic Level Inverter / Level Shifter
SKU: AF-3877 | Brand: Adafruit
A hex Schmitt-trigger inverter IC that doubles as a handy logic level shifter. The 74AHCT14 provides six independent inverter channels, each with Schmitt-trigger inputs for clean switching on noisy or slow-transitioni...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
Octopus Dust Sensor Detector Module with Sharp GP2Y1010AU0F
SKU: EF-EF11083 | Brand: ElecFreaks
The Octopus Dust Sensor Module features the Sharp GP2Y1010AU0F optical dust sensor, capable of detecting fine particles with a diameter as small as 0.8 μm. It uses an infrared LED and phototransistor to measure dust d...
Delivered by Tue 8 Sep
IR Modular Piano Kit
SKU: LB-00061 | Brand: Little Bird
OverviewDeveloped as a quick starter board for the less experienced we envision this board as the follow up to your first soldering session.In isolation this board will produce a middle C note by hovering over the boa...
Delivered by Tue 8 Sep
IR distance sensor includes cable (20cm-150cm) [GP2Y0A02YK]
SKU: AF-1031 | Brand: Adafruit
This SHARP distance sensor bounces IR off objects to determine how far away they are. It returns an analog voltage that can be used to determine how close the nearest object is. Comes with 8" long 3-JST interface wire...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
Adafruit GPIO Expander Bonnet - 16 Additional I/O over I2C
SKU: AF-4132 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit GPIO Expander Bonnet adds 16 extra digital I/O pins to your Raspberry Pi over I²C. Based on the MCP23017 chip, it plugs directly onto the Pi's 40-pin header and communicates via SDA/SCL, leaving your othe...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
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