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 Spectral Sensor Breakout - AS7263 NIR (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-14351 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun AS7263 breakout brings near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to your microcontroller projects. The sensor measures six discrete NIR wavelengths, allowing you to characterise how different materials absorb and ...
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SparkFun Spectral Sensor Breakout - AS7262 Visible (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-14347 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun AS7262 Visible Spectral Sensor Breakout brings spectroscopy to the palm of your hand, making it easy to measure and characterise how different materials absorb and reflect different wavelengths of light. ...
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Button SHIM
SKU: PR-PIM301 | Brand: Little Bird
Button SHIM gives you five handy, physical buttons and an RGB status LED, and it's HAT and pHAT-compatible! Our SHIM-format boards are designed to slip neatly onto your Pi's GPIO pins and still allow you to use HAT...
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Arduino Compatible PIR Motion Detector Module
SKU: TB-XC4444 | Brand: Little Bird
A pyroelectric infrared (PIR) motion sensor module for Arduino and microcontroller projects. It detects movement from people and animals by sensing changes in infrared radiation, outputting a digital high signal when ...
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OLED Breakout Board - 16-bit Color 1.5 w/microSD holder
SKU: AF-1431 | Brand: Adafruit
A 1.5" colour OLED breakout with 128×128 RGB pixels and 16-bit colour depth, driven by the SSD1351 controller. Because it uses OLED technology, there is no backlight — blacks are truly black with excellent contrast. T...
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IDC Breakout Helper - 2x20 (40 pin)
SKU: AF-2270 | Brand: Adafruit
The "poor woman's" Raspberry Pi A+ / B+ / Pi 2 cobbler! This combo of 2x20 pin (0.1 spaced) header and socket is for our popular GPIO Ribbon Cable for Raspberry Pi Model A+/B+/Pi 2 (40 pins). It comes in...
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Adafruit 2.4 TFT LCD with Touchscreen Breakout w/MicroSD Socket [ILI9341]
SKU: AF-2478 | Brand: Adafruit
Add a full-colour touchscreen to your project with this 2.4" TFT LCD breakout. The 240×320 pixel display delivers vivid RGB colour with individual pixel control, driven by the ILI9341 controller with built-in RAM buff...
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HIH-4030 Humidity Sensor Carrier
SKU: PL-1643 | Brand: Pololu
Sparkfun’s carrier board for the HIH-4030 relative humidity (%RH) sensor from Honeywell outputs an analog voltage that varies nearly linearly with humidity. It operates at 5 V while drawing only 200 μA and ...
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Methane Gas Sensor MQ-4
SKU: PL-1633 | Brand: Pololu
This semiconductor gas sensor detects the presence of methane (CNG) gas at concentrations from 300 ppm to 10,000 ppm, a range suitable for detecting gas leaks. The sensor’s simple analog voltage interface re...
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Button Pad 2x2 - Breakout PCB
SKU: SF-COM-09277 | Brand: SparkFun
A simple breakout board for 2×2 button pads with integrated LEDs. Each LED and button is brought out to side connectors, making wiring straightforward. The board also includes footprints for 1N4148 through-hole diodes...
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ProtoBoard - Square 1 Single Sided
SKU: SF-PRT-08808 | Brand: SparkFun
This is a very simple but extremely handy, 1" square, single sided perf board. Standard 0.1" spacing with a 4-40 (3mm) hole for mounting. Every three holes are connected with a 20mil trace. Package of 2
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A4988 Stepper Motor Driver Carrier
SKU: PL-1182 | Brand: Pololu
A breakout board for the Allegro A4988 DMOS microstepping stepper motor driver with translator and overcurrent protection. It lets you control one bipolar stepper motor at up to 2 A per coil (with sufficient cooling) ...
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FTDI Friend + extras [v1.0]
SKU: AF-284 | Brand: Adafruit
Note: These use genuine FTDI chips, either we purchase them or they are manufactured to our specifications with the requirement of genuine FTDI chips 10/22/14 - read more. Long gone are the days of parallel ports and ...
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SparkFun Micro OLED Breakout
SKU: SF-LCD-13003 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Micro OLED Breakout Board breaks out a small monochrome, blue-on-black OLED. It’s “micro”, but it still packs a punch – the OLED display is crisp, and you can fit a deceivingly large amount of graphics on...
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Analog UV Light Sensor Breakout - GUVA-S12SD
SKU: AF-1918 | Brand: Adafruit
An analog UV light sensor breakout based on the GUVA-S12SD photodiode, detecting the 240–370nm range covering UVB and most of the UVA spectrum. An on-board op-amp amplifies the tiny photodiode current to a readable vo...
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DRV8838 Single Brushed DC Motor Driver Carrier
SKU: PL-2990 | Brand: Pololu
Overview DRV8838 Single Brushed DC Motor Driver Carrier, bottom view with dimensions. TI SN754410 (16-pin DIP) next to the #2135 DRV8835 carrier (14-pin DIP) and #2990 DRV8838 carrier (10-pin DIP) for size re...
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SparkFun GNSS Flex pHAT - mosaic-X5 - SparkFun Electronics
SKU: SF-GPS-28766 | Brand: SparkFun
Achieve survey-grade, millimeter-level precision with your Raspberry Pi using the SparkFun mosaic-X5 GNSS Flex pHAT. This top-tier PNT add-on for the Raspberry Pi combines our versatile pHAT carrier with th...
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Adafruit RS232 Full Breakout with DE9-M
SKU: AF-6253 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit RS-232 Full Breakout with DE9-M lets you interface any 3.3 V microcontroller or single-board computer with RS-232 devices using all 8 data/flow-control signals. Built around the trusted TI MAX3243, it gen...
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Pre-Assembled Adafruit PiCowbell Adalogger for Pico
SKU: AF-6355 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit PiCowbell Adalogger is a data logging add-on board designed to socket underneath a Raspberry Pi Pico or Pico W. It provides a microSD card slot, a PCF8523 real-time clock with battery backup, and a STEMMA...
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SparkFun Qwiic Navigation Switch
SKU: SF-PRT-27576 | Brand: SparkFun
Product Overview Meet the SparkFun Navigation Switch, a nifty little addition to your I²C bus that features a 5-way tactile switch akin to a joystick! This compact component allows you to interact with your microcont...
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