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.
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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Analog Output K-Type Thermocouple Amplifier - AD8495 Breakout
SKU: AF-1778 | Brand: Adafruit
The AD8495 from Analog Devices is an analog-output K-type thermocouple amplifier on a compact breakout board. Simply power the board with 3–18V DC, connect a K-type thermocouple to the terminal block, and read the tem...
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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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SparkFun RS232 Shifter SMD (No DB9)
SKU: SF-PRT-08780 | Brand: SparkFun
A compact RS232-to-TTL level shifter board that converts both TX and RX lines bidirectionally. Powered from your target application's supply voltage, it automatically converts RS232 signals to match — run it at 5 V fo...
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SparkFun Serial Basic Breakout - CH340G
SKU: SF-DEV-14050 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Serial Basic Breakout is an easy-to-use USB-to-Serial adapter based on the CH340G IC from WCH. It works with 5V and 3.3V systems and should auto install on most operating systems without the need for a...
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SparkFun Capacitive Touch Breakout - AT42QT1010
SKU: SF-SEN-12041 | Brand: SparkFun
If you need to add user input without using a button, then a capacitive touch interface might be the answer. The AT42QT1010 SparkFun Capacitive Touch Breakout offers a single capacitive touch button with easy-to-use d...
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Arduino Compatible Real Time Clock Module
SKU: TB-XC4450 | Brand: Little Bird
This compact real-time clock (RTC) module keeps accurate time using a DS1307 RTC chip and a replaceable battery. With an onboard 24C32 32K EEPROM for data storage, it's a versatile addition to Arduino projects requiri...
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SparkFun SIM Card Socket Breakout
SKU: SF-BOB-00573 | Brand: SparkFun
This is a full 8-pin breakout for the SIM socket allowing direct access to SIM communication. Note: This breakout board was originally designed for a SIM socket with a switch for card detection. We have since switched...
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SparkFun RS232 Shifter - SMD
SKU: SF-PRT-00449 | Brand: SparkFun
The smallest and easiest to use serial conversion circuit on the market! This board has one purpose in life - to convert RS232 to TTL and vice versa (TX and RX). This will allow a microcontroller to communicate with a...
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Adafruit RFM95W LoRa Radio Transceiver Breakout - 433 MHz
SKU: AF-3073 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit RFM95W LoRa Radio Transceiver Breakout lets you send data over very long distances using the 433 MHz licence-free ISM band. Based on the SX1276 LoRa chipset, this breakout achieves ranges of approximately...
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SparkFun SAMD21 Dev Breakout
SKU: SF-DEV-13672 | Brand: SparkFun
If you’re ready to step your Arduino game up from older 8-bit/16MHz microcontrollers, the SparkFun SAMD21 Dev Breakout is a great landing spot. The SparkFun SAMD21 Dev Breakout is an Arduino-sized breakout for the ...
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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...
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SparkFun OpenScale
SKU: SF-SEN-13261 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun OpenScale is an open-source weight measurement board designed for load cells. Simply connect a four-wire or five-wire load cell of any capacity, plug into USB, open a serial terminal at 9,600 bps, and you...
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Hydrogen Gas Sensor - MQ-8
SKU: SF-SEN-10916 | Brand: SparkFun
This is a simple-to-use hydrogen gas sensor, suitable for sensing hydrogen concentrations in the air. The MQ-8 can detect hydrogen gas concentrations anywhere from 100-10000ppm. This sensor has a high sensitivity an...
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SparkFun IR Thermometer Evaluation Board - MLX90614
SKU: SF-SEN-10740 | Brand: SparkFun
An evaluation board for the MLX90614 non-contact infrared thermometer sensor. It pairs the MLX90614 with an ATmega328 running at 3.3 V (8 MHz Arduino bootloader), giving you a ready-to-use IR temperature sensor with s...
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LED Tactile Button Breakout
SKU: SF-BOB-10467 | Brand: SparkFun
This simple breakout board makes it easy to use our LED tactile switches in a breadboard, or your next project. Note: Populate the board according to the polarity of the LED on the switch. The markings for the swi...
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SparkFun RGB and Gesture Sensor - APDS-9960
SKU: SF-SEN-12787 | Brand: SparkFun
This is the SparkFun RGB and Gesture Sensor, a small breakout board with a built in APDS-9960 sensor that offers ambient light and color measuring, proximity detection, and touchless gesture sensing. With this RGB and...
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1.8 SPI TFT display, 160x128 18-bit color - ST7735R driver
SKU: AF-618 | Brand: Adafruit
A compact 1.8" TFT display with true 18-bit colour (262,144 shades) and 160 × 128 resolution. It uses a simple SPI interface requiring only 4–5 digital pins and features two white LED backlights running on 3.3 V. Driv...
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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...
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SparkFun Energy Harvester Breakout - LTC3588
SKU: SF-BOB-09946 | Brand: SparkFun
This breakout board uses the LTC3588 Piezoelectric Energy Harvester from Linear Technologies. This board can be used not only for harvesting piezoelectric energy, but solar energy as well. There is a bridge rectified ...
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