Breakouts

VS1063 is an easy-to-use, versatile encoder, decoder and codec for a multitude of audio formats. With this breakout board, it’s easy to drop it int...

This breakout board gives you a pretty slick interface for rotary input. Since rotary encoders turn continuously it can be difficult to imagine ...

Sometimes you need a very small directional input device (world’s smallest game controller, anyone?) This 5-way tactile switch (up, down, left, rig...

The VS1033D-L is a great MP3 decoder, and with this breakout board, it’s easy to drop it into any project. The VS1033 is capable of decoding MP3/AA...

We love our black and white monochrome displays but we also like to dabble with some color now and then. Our 1.27" color OLED displays are perfect ...

Socket (female) header is like the duct tape of electronics. Its great for connecting things together, soldering to perf-boards or PCBs to allow...

This inertial-measurement-unit combines 2 of the best quality sensors available on the market to give you 9 axes of data: 3 axes of acceleromete...

Make a small linear display with multiple colors using this elegant bi-color LED bargraph. Only 1.2" long, it is quite visible but not so large ...

What's better than a single LED? Lots of LEDs! And what's better than lots of LEDs? TWO TIMES AS MANY LEDS!!! With the 16x8 LED Matrix Backpack ...

Add some jazz & pizazz to your project with a color touchscreen LCD. This TFT display is big (2.8" diagonal) bright (4 white-LED backlight) ...

This 5050 LED breakout PCB set will make your life much much easier and get you prototyping faster than ever. Solder your 5050 sized LED to either ...

Our Adafruit Bluefruit LE (Bluetooth Smart, Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth 4.0) nRF8001 Breakout allows you to establish an easy to use wireles...

Thermocouples are very sensitive, requiring a good amplifier with a cold-compensation reference. We have a couple digital thermocouple amplifier...

Remember when you were a kid and there was a birthday party at the pool and your parents totally embarrassed you by slathering you all over with...

Now that you've finally got your hands on a Raspberry Pi® , you're probably itching to make some fun embedded computer projects with it. What you n...

Have you ever tried making a connection from your Raspberry Pi to a breadboard and had trouble finding the pin you need because nothing is label...

This I2C digital temperature sensor is one of the more accurate/precise we've ever seen, with a typical accuracy of ±0.25°C over the sensor's -40°C...

You know those ZIF sockets we have for DIP chips? Well these are just like that but for SMT parts! Yeah, that's right, now you can program and test...

Simple but effective - this breakout board has a CR1220 coin cell battery holder soldered on and 0.1" pitch breakout pins for easy connecting. G...

Simple but effective - this breakout board has a CR1220 coin cell battery holder soldered on, an on/off switch and 0.1" pitch breakout pins for eas...

Simple but effective - this sewable breakout board has a CR2032 coin cell battery holder soldered on and 0.1" pitch breakout pins for easy conne...

A gyroscope is a type of sensor that can sense twisting and turning motions. Often paired with an accelerometer, you can use these to do 3D motion ...

The Raspberry Pi B+/Pi 2/ Pi 3 has landed on the Maker World like a 40-GPIO pinned, quad-USB ported, credit card sized bomb of DIY joy. And whil...

The Intel® Edison is a compact computing platform that's small by design so you can easily integrate it into projects.  It's primarily designed ...