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.
pHAT Stack - Solder Yourself Kit
SKU: PR-PIM321 | Brand: Little Bird
Stack up to 5 HATs or pHATs on a single Raspberry Pi with the pHAT Stack from Pimoroni. This solder-yourself kit lets you mix and match multiple add-on boards for dashboard setups, multi-sensor projects, or any build ...
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Mini Black HAT Hack3r - Fully Assembled
SKU: PR-PIM169 | Brand: Little Bird
The Mini Black HAT Hack3r is a compact breakout board that lets you access all 40 GPIO pins on your Raspberry Pi while a HAT or pHAT is attached. It connects between your Pi and the HAT via a ribbon cable, bringing ev...
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MDBT42Q Breakout
SKU: PI-ESP004 | Brand: Pimoroni
This board has the same Bluetooth LE module that used on Puck.js and Pixl.js, pre-programmed with Espruino. Just apply power, connect with Bluetooth LE or Serial and start writing JavaScript! This is a boar...
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LSM303D 6DoF Motion Sensor Breakout
SKU: PR-PIM376 | Brand: Little Bird
This 6 Degrees of Freedom Motion Sensor Breakout can detect acceleration in three axes - X, Y, and Z - as well as three axes of magnetic heading. It's ideal for building into robots, rockets, and rov...
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Adafruit 2.7 Tri-Color eInk / ePaper Display with SRAM - Red Black White
SKU: AF-4098 | Brand: Adafruit
Add a large, vibrant tri-colour eInk display to your microcontroller project with this 2.7" breakout board. The panel displays red, black, and white pixels at 264×176 resolution that remain visible even with power com...
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GPIO Hammer Header (Solderless) - Male
SKU: PI-COM1104 | Brand: Pimoroni
Absolutely no soldering required! All that's needed is a few gentle taps with a hammer and bazinga! Your header is securely attached to your Pi Zero or pHAT.If your soldering isn't quite up to scratch, or you just don...
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Explorer pHAT
SKU: PR-PIM199 | Brand: Little Bird
Explorer pHAT is the perfect prototyping side-kick for your Raspberry Pi! A more diminutive version of our popular Explorer Hat Pro, it's cheaper and designed to fit perfectly on a Raspberry Pi ...
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Explorer HAT Pro
SKU: PR-PIM175 | Brand: Little Bird
The Explorer HAT Pro is a feature-packed add-on board for Raspberry Pi that brings together digital I/O, analog inputs, capacitive touch, motor drivers, LEDs, and a mini breadboard — all on a single HAT. It's ideal fo...
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Display-O-Tron Breakout
SKU: PR-PIM146 | Brand: Little Bird
The Display-O-Tron Breakout pairs a high-contrast 16 × 3 character LCD with an RGB backlight on a compact breakout board. It runs from either 3.3 V or 5 V and supports SPI, 4-bit, and 8-bit interfaces via the ST7036 c...
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Arduino MKR Proto Shield
SKU: PI-TSX00001 | Brand: Pimoroni
The prototyping shield designed for your MKR board! The MKR Proto Shield is a prototyping shield designed for your Arduino MKR board. This shield easily plugs onto your MKR using its provided female/male hea...
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40-pin GPIO Ribbon Cable for Raspberry Pi - Black
SKU: PI-CAB0505 | Brand: Pimoroni
A 175mm black GPIO ribbon cable for Raspberry Pi, with 40-pin female IDC connectors on both ends. Bridges your Pi's GPIO header out to a breakout board, breadboard adapter, or custom PCB. Pin 1 is marked with a white/...
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Flexible Protoboard - 20cm x 30cm
SKU: AF-3904 | Brand: Adafruit
Make your next project super-flexy with a biiiig prototyping board that can twist and shout– err, twist and bend! This passive flexible proto-PCB is about large as a piece of paper, but instead of dead-trees its ma...
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SparkFun Triad Spectroscopy Sensor - AS7265x (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-15050 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Triad Spectroscopy Sensor combines three AS7265x spectral sensors with onboard UV, visible, and IR LEDs to measure light across 18 individual frequencies — from 410 nm (UV) to 940 nm (IR). It brings light...
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Adafruit Trellis Monochrome Driver PCB for 4x4 Keypad 3mm LEDs
SKU: AF-1616 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Trellis is an open-source backlight keypad driver system designed to work with the Adafruit 4×4 elastomer keypad and 3mm LEDs. Each tile handles keypress detection and LED control for a 4×4 grid over I2C,...
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SparkFun Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout - H3LIS331DL
SKU: SF-SEN-14480 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun H3LIS331DL Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout is a low-power, high-g accelerometer with I2C and SPI interface options. Though not necessarily good at detecting minute changes, the H3LIS331DL is great for ...
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RedBear Beacon B1
SKU: RB-B1 | Brand: Little Bird
The RedBear Beacon B1 is an officially licensed Apple iBeacon transmitter with Bluetooth SIG qualification and CE, R&TTE, and FCC certifications. It broadcasts BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) signals that can be detected b...
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Bi-Color (Red/Green) 12-LED Bargraph - Pack of 2
SKU: AF-1719 | Brand: Adafruit
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 it wont plug into a breadboard! 24 LEDs are contained in the plastic b...
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20mm Coin Cell Breakout w/On-Off Switch (CR2032)
SKU: AF-1871 | Brand: Adafruit
A sewable breakout board with a CR2032 coin cell battery holder, built-in on/off switch, and 0.1" pitch breakout pins. The board provides two ground pins, one switched power pin, and one always-on power pin — giving y...
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Adafruit Perma-Proto HAT for Pi Mini Kit - With EEPROM
SKU: AF-2314 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Perma-Proto HAT for Pi Mini Kit with EEPROM is a full-sized prototyping daughter board for any Raspberry Pi with a 2×20 GPIO header. It provides a grid of 0.1″ soldering holes connected in a familiar brea...
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