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.
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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Adafruit Multi-pitch FPC Adapter - 40 Pin 0.5/0.6/0.7/0.8/1.0mm
SKU: AF-1436 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Multi-pitch FPC Adapter breaks out 40 pins of flexible printed circuit (FPC) cable to standard 0.1" spaced headers for easy breadboard prototyping. With pads for 0.5 mm, 0.6 mm, 0.7 mm, 0.8 mm, and 1.0 mm...
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3 pin Button Key Switch Module
SKU: LB-00331 | Brand: Little Bird
A small push-button switch module on a breakout board with a built-in pull resistor, so no external resistors are needed. The 3-pin header (signal, VCC, GND) plugs directly into a solderless breadboard or connects via...
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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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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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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 Coulomb Counter Breakout - LTC4150
SKU: SF-BOB-12052 | Brand: SparkFun
Odometers are extremely useful for cars, they tell you how far you have gone, wouldn’t it be nice if you were able to have a device that does the same for electrical current? The LTC4150 SparkFun Coulomb Counter Break...
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BNC Female Jack Terminal Block
SKU: AF-2889 | Brand: Adafruit
One truth about working with test equipment is you always need the cable or adapter you don't have in your toolbox. That's why we love these terminal-block BNC (Bayonet Neill–Concelman, for those in the k...
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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 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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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 Pressure Sensor Breakout - MS5803-14BA
SKU: SF-SEN-12909 | Brand: SparkFun
This is the MS5803-14BA Pressure Sensor Breakout, a high resolution pressure sensor with both an I2C and SPI interface. This MEMS pressure sensor measures the absolute pressure of the fluid around it which includes ai...
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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 Full-Bridge Motor Driver Breakout - L298N
SKU: SF-BOB-09540 | Brand: SparkFun
This is a breakout board for the L298N full-bridge dual motor driver; which comes in a staggered, Multiwatt package. All pins of the L298N are broken out to a 15-pin 0.1" pitch header. Two mounting holes are also...
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Adafruit SHARP Memory Display Breakout - 1.3 168x144 Monochrome
SKU: AF-3502 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit SHARP Memory Display Breakout features a 1.3" 168×144 monochrome LCD that combines the ultra-low power consumption of e-paper with the fast refresh rates of a traditional LCD. The display shows crisp blac...
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