Components

These are small rare earth magnets - 3/16" rings. Composed of Neodymium/Iron/Boron (NdFeB), these magnets are curiously strong and make for a great...

Make some beautiful colors with these diffused rectangular 2.5mm x 5mm RGB LEDs with separate red, green and blue LED chips inside! They make nice ...

Standard 22 AWG stranded black wire. Use this for soldering wire or any project in which you need flexible wire. Stranded wire is recommended for p...

Your project will probably need an on/off switch. If you plan to house the project in an enclosure, we found this great rocker switch to help yo...

These are 8mm (0.31") ball bearings. They will fit on 8mm (0.31") rods.​ SPECIFICATIONS Model:688zz Inner diameter:8mm (0....

Small electret microphone. Useful in acoustic and audio applications. Documents: Datasheet Example Audio LED control project by Adam Greig

This is a simple, very common rectifier diode. Often used for reverse voltage protection, the 1N4001 is a staple for many power, DC to DC step up, ...

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 ter...

Surface mount 3-way switch. These switches are commonly found on handheld devices like MP3 players. This switch allows the user to navigate using u...

Standard 22 AWG solid Black hook up wire. Use this with your bread board or any project in which you need sturdy wire. Comes in small spools of 25'.

Dip sockets for all your prototyping needs. If you’ve ever had to de-solder a dip part from a circuit board, you know how valuable these are! Numbe...

These are standard 0.1" spaced header pins that can be through-hole mounted. This header connects perfectly with most 8-pin male headers. This...

Ever wanted to see what’s on that SIM card? Use these sockets in your next project to interface to any old SIM. 6-Pin standard connection. This is ...

These are very bright LEDs. The LEDs are so bright that it hurts to look directly at them. Please take a look at the pictures to get an idea of the...

LEDs - those blinky things. A must have for power indication, pin status, opto-electronic sensors, and fun blinky displays. This is a very standard...

1/6th Watt, +/- 5% tolerance PTH resistors. Commonly used in breadboards and perf boards, these 1.0M resistors make excellent pull-ups, pull-dow...

8-Pin SSOP to DIP break out board. The footprint was rotated to accommodate different width SSOP devices and can be used with 8 pin SSOPs. Desig...

2500mAh 1.2V Nickel Metal Hydride rechargeable ‘AA’ batteries. NiMH technology provides all the benefits of NiCads without the toxic ingredients an...

Ever hear of a thing called RGB? Red, Green, Blue? How about an RGB LED? These 5mm units have four pins - Cathode is the longest pin. One for ea...

This spool of solid-core wire is easily soldered to and can handle up to 200°C and 600V. We like this wire because it's flexible but also holds ...

These are standard 0.1" spaced header pins that can be surface mounted for applications where through-hole pins won’t work. The surface mount si...

The PicoBuck LED Driver is an economical and easy to use driver that will allow you to control and blend three different LEDs on three different ch...

Standard HD44780 LCDs are useful for creating standalone projects. 20 characters wide, 4 rows White text on blue background Connection port is 0.1"...

Our IO expansion board is evolving, the RS485 IO Expansion Shield is now supporting Xbee and has colour coded pin header. It combines our pop...