Prototyping & Wiring
Everything you need to wire up, connect, and house your electronics projects — all in one place. From breadboards and jumper wires to breakout boards, crimp connectors, headers, and project enclosures, this collection covers the essentials for hobbyists, students, and professionals alike.
Whether you're prototyping a new circuit, organising your bench, or building a finished STEM project, you'll find the right cables, connectors, and storage solutions here. Shipped Australia-wide from our Sydney warehouse.
Pushbutton PUSH-ON MOMENTARY SPST RED ACTUATOR
SKU: TB-SP0716 | Brand: Little Bird
A simple, reliable momentary pushbutton switch with a red actuator. Press to close the circuit, release to open — ideal for control panels, reset buttons, and general-purpose switching. Panel-mounts into a 6 mm round ...
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Maker Essentials - LEDs Resistors
SKU: PR-PIM244 | Brand: Little Bird
A starter pack of over 50 LEDs in three sizes and five colours, bundled with a selection of through-hole resistors. The current-limiting resistors protect the LEDs and let you control brightness — everything you need ...
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NE556 Dual 555 Timer Linear IC
SKU: TB-ZL3556 | Brand: Little Bird
The NE556 is a dual 555 timer IC in a single 14-pin DIP package, providing two independent timing circuits. Each timer operates identically to the standard NE555, supporting astable, monostable, and bistable modes. I...
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74HC154 4-16 Line Decoder/DeMux IC
SKU: TB-ZC4850 | Brand: Little Bird
A 74HC154 4-to-16 line decoder/demultiplexer IC in a through-hole DIP-24 package. This chip takes a 4-bit binary input and activates one of 16 mutually exclusive active-low outputs, making it useful for address decodi...
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USB Powered Soldering Iron
SKU: PK-SI-168U | Brand: Little Bird
This is a handy little USB powered Soldering Iron. Great for you on-the-go tool kit.It has a super slim tip for fine work and is replaceable.It has an auto sleep function where it powers off after 25 seconds of ...
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Slotted Aluminum Extrusion - 20mm x 20mm - 610mm long
SKU: AF-1221 | Brand: Adafruit
Oh boy, now you have no excuse for not building that robot! Nothing is easier or faster than building with extrusion and we've added 20mm square aluminum extrusion and components to our catalog. This product is the ex...
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DC Barrel Power Jack/Connector
SKU: PI-COM1303 | Brand: Pimoroni
DC power jack/connector. This is a common barrel-type power jack for DC wall supplies. These have a 5.5mm jack, with a 2.1mm center pole diameter. Datasheets: Datasheet
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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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Arduino MKR Relay Proto Shield
SKU: PI-TSX00003 | Brand: Pimoroni
The MKR Relay Protoshield allows you to easily add relays to your MKR board based project. The shield provides two relays called RELAY1 and RELAY2 commanded by pin 1 and pin 2 r...
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Standalone Momentary Capacitive Touch Sensor Breakout [AT42QT1010]
SKU: AF-1374 | Brand: Adafruit
This breakout board is the simplest way to create a project with a single "momentary" capacitive touch sensor. No microcontroller is required here - just power with 1.8 to 5.5VDC and touch the pad to activate the sens...
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555/556 Timer - NE556N
SKU: PI-COM0208 | Brand: Pimoroni
The NE556N is a dual timer IC containing two independent 555 timers in a single PDIP-14 package. Both timers share common power and ground pins but operate completely independently, making it ideal for circuits that n...
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Blue Light Duty Hook-up Wire - 25m
SKU: TB-WH3006 | Brand: Little Bird
Now everyone can afford to have a roll of each colour hook- up wire by their work bench. Quality 13 x 0.12 tinned hook- up wire on plastic spools. Specifications ...
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3 Pin 0.1 Header with Crimp Pins - 2.54 pitch
SKU: TB-HM3403 | Brand: Little Bird
A 3-pin single-row crimp connector housing with 2.54 mm (0.1") pitch, designed for PCB-to-PCB or cable-to-PCB connections. The white nylon wafer housing features locking and polarising, with tin-plated brass pins that...
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0.7mm SPST Micro Tactile Switch
SKU: TB-SP0600 | Brand: Little Bird
This 0.7 mm SPST Micro Tactile Switch is a normally-open, single-action momentary pushbutton designed for PCB mounting. With a low-profile 3.2 mm height and compact 6 × 6 mm footprint, it fits easily into space-constr...
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Adafruit SGP30 Air Quality Sensor Breakout - VOC and eCO2
SKU: AF-3709 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit SGP30 is a multi-pixel MOX (metal-oxide) gas sensor from Sensirion that measures Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOC) and equivalent CO2 (eCO2) for indoor air quality monitoring. With fully calibrated ...
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1/4 Watt Carbon Film Resistors - 300 Pieces
SKU: TB-RR1680 | Brand: Little Bird
A comprehensive assortment of 300 carbon film resistors covering 60 different values from 1 Ω to 10 MΩ. Each value includes five resistors, all bandoleered for easy sorting and identification — an essential kit for an...
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The Big Book of Makerspace Projects: Inspiring Makers to Experiment, Create, and Learn
SKU: LB-00336 | Brand: Little Bird
Start-to-finish, fun projects for makers of all types, ages, and skill levels! Written by two school librarians obsessed with making stuff, this easy-to-follow guide is full of hands-on, low-cost makerspace projects t...
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Ultimate Initio Robot Kit for Raspberry Pi
SKU: TR-INITULTPI | Brand: 4tronix
Ultimate Initio Kit for Raspberry Pi Does NOT include the Raspberry Pi Model B 3 Includes 4tronix RoboHAT No Soldering RequiredKit Contents: Main Initio chassis (with wheels, motors, gearboxes, ba...
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4017 Decade Counter/Divider CMOS IC
SKU: TB-ZC4017 | Brand: Little Bird
The CD4017 is a CMOS decade counter/divider IC that sequentially activates one of ten outputs (Q0–Q9) on each rising edge of the clock input. Widely used in LED chasers, sequencers, and timing circuits, it's one of th...
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