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.
SparkFun LED RingCoder Breakout - RGB
SKU: SF-BOB-11040 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun LED RingCoder Breakout provides a visual position indicator for rotary encoders. Two 8-bit shift registers drive a circular LED bargraph that displays the virtual position of the encoder as it turns, givi...
Delivered by Tue 25 Aug
16x8 1.2 LED Matrix + Backpack - Ultra Bright Round Blue LEDs
SKU: AF-2039 | Brand: Adafruit
A 16×8 LED matrix backpack kit featuring two ultra-bright 1.2" blue 8×8 round LED matrices on a single I2C-controlled driver board. The HT16K33 chip handles all the multiplexing, so you only need two I2C pins (SDA and...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
Pololu Basic SPDT Relay Carrier with 5VDC Relay (Partial Kit)
SKU: PL-2481 | Brand: Pololu
The Pololu basic relay carrier modules allow simple control of a single-pole, double-throw (SPDT) switch from low-voltage, low-current control signals. This item includes the basic carrier PCB along with an Omron G5L...
Delivered by Tue 25 Aug
SparkFun Photo Interrupter Breakout Board - GP1A57HRJ00F
SKU: SF-BOB-09322 | Brand: SparkFun
A simple breakout PCB for the GP1A57HR photo interrupter (also known as a photogate, photodiode, or phototransistor). This PCB has three connections for PWR, GND, and Signal.When the gate is clear, SIG will be high (>...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
RFID Reader ID-3LA (125 kHz)
SKU: SF-SEN-11862 | Brand: SparkFun
RFID (radio-frequency identification) is the wireless non-contact use of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields, for the purposes of identifying and tracking tags attached to objects. This is the ID-3LA, a very simple...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
SparkFun RedBot Sensor - Line Follower
SKU: SF-SEN-11769 | Brand: SparkFun
The Line Follower sensor is an add-on for your RedBot that gives your robot the ability to detect lines or nearby objects. The sensor works by detecting reflected light coming from its own infrared LED. By measurin...
Delivered by Tue 25 Aug
IR distance sensor includes cable (10cm-80cm) [GP2Y0A21YK0F]
SKU: AF-164 | Brand: Adafruit
The Sharp GP2Y0A21YK0F is an infrared distance sensor that measures distances from 10 cm to 80 cm by bouncing IR light off objects. It outputs an analogue voltage proportional to distance — approximately 3 V at 10 cm ...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
Pimoroni Mini Black HAT Hack3r - Fully Assembled
SKU: AF-3182 | Brand: Adafruit
The Pimoroni Mini Black HAT Hack3r breaks out all 40 GPIO pins from your Raspberry Pi while still allowing a HAT or pHAT to sit on top. Connect via the included ribbon cable and access every pin — labelled with functi...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
SparkFun Large Digit Driver
SKU: SF-WIG-13279 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Large Digit Driver is a chainable controller board that solders directly to the back of 6.5" 7-segment LED displays. It uses the TPIC6C596 shift register IC to drive individual segments, making it easy to...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
Adafruit MiCS5524 CO, Alcohol and VOC Gas Sensor Breakout
SKU: AF-3199 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit MiCS-5524 Gas Sensor Breakout is a robust MEMS sensor from SGX Sensortech for detecting carbon monoxide, natural gas leaks, alcohol, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). It provides a simple analogue vo...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
Infrared Proximity Sensor Short Range - Sharp GP2Y0A41SK0F
SKU: SF-SEN-12728 | Brand: SparkFun
Infrared proximity sensor made by Sharp. Part # GP2Y0A41SK0F has an analog output that varies from 3.1V at 4cm to 0.3V at 30cm with a supply voltage between 4.5 and 5.5VDC. The sensor has a Japanese Solderless Termina...
Delivered by Tue 25 Aug
SparkFun Real Time Clock Module
SKU: SF-BOB-12708 | Brand: SparkFun
This is the SparkFun Real Time Clock (RTC) Module, this little breakout that uses the DS1307 to keep track of the current year, month, day as well as the current time. The module comes fully assembled and includes a s...
Delivered by Tue 25 Aug
SparkFun USB Mini-B Breakout
SKU: SF-BOB-09966 | Brand: SparkFun
A simple breakout board for the USB Mini-B connector, bringing all 5 pins out to a breadboard-friendly 0.1" pitch header. Useful for prototyping USB connections or as a convenient 5V power source (up to 100 mA, unregu...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
SparkFun OpAmp Breakout - LMV358
SKU: SF-BOB-09816 | Brand: SparkFun
This is a simple 5V Op Amp breakout board, set up as a 2-stage amplifier with a gain of 100 (gain of 10 for each stage). The on-board trim pot sets the signal level between the stages, not the feedback path. The bandw...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
SPI Flash Breakout - W25Q16 16Mbit / 2MB
SKU: AF-5635 | Brand: Adafruit
When an SD card is overkill, this small board gives your microcontroller project a handy chunk of non-volatile storage for files, images, fonts, audio clips and other data. It uses a W25Q16 flash chip, providing 16 Mb...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
USB 2.0 USB-C Connector Breakout Board
SKU: SF-BOB-17110 | Brand: SparkFun
USB-C is handy for modern projects, but its 24 tiny, tightly spaced pins are not friendly to hand soldering or quick prototyping. This breakout board routes the essential USB-C connections out to a standard 0.1" (2.54...
Delivered by Thu 3 Sep
Sunken USB Type-C Breakout Board
SKU: AF-6050 | Brand: Adafruit
This compact breakout is made for slim USB-C projects where a standard horizontal or vertical connector would sit too high. Its sunken Type-C connector straddles the PCBA, helping keep your build low profile while sti...
Delivered by Wed 16 Sep
Tiny RTC For Arduino
SKU: EC-SMI00101S | Brand: Elecrow
This tiny RTC module is based on the clock chip DS1307 which supports the I2C protocol. It uses a Lithium cell battery (CR1225). The clock/calendar provides seconds, minutes, hours, day, date,month, and year informati...
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OnOff SHIM
SKU: PR-PIM269 | Brand: Little Bird
Add a tiny yet convenient power switch to your Pi with OnOff SHIM! Our SHIMs (Shove Hardware in the Middle) are a new range of boards designed to be small, affordable, and handy. They're just 0.8mm thick (the bare ...
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IR Kit For Arduino
SKU: DF-DFR0107 | Brand: DFRobot
This IR kit provides a remote control capability to your project. DOCUMENTS Wiki Arduino Library (Compatible with Leonardo) SHIPPING LIST IR Remote Controller (With battery CR2025 inside) x1...
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