Prototyping & Wiring

SKU: AF-1493 | Brand: Adafruit

A compact aluminium heat sink designed for surface-mount components such as SoCs, motor drivers, linear regulators, FETs, and other SMT packages. Its small footprint and tall fin design provide effective thermal dissi...

SKU: AF-1502 | Brand: Adafruit

A clean, rounded 16mm panel-mount momentary pushbutton in yellow. This normally-open micro-switch connects the contacts only while pressed, making it a straightforward input for any project enclosure or control panel....

SKU: AF-2138 | Brand: Adafruit

A compact 2-pin screw terminal block with 2.54mm (0.1") pitch, designed to fit directly into perfboard and protoboards. Terminal blocks provide reliable, tool-adjustable PCB-to-wire connections that are easy to mainta...

SKU: AF-2006 | Brand: Adafruit

Silicone-sheathing wire is super-flexible and soft, and its also strong! Able to handle up to 200°C and up to 600V, it will do when PVC covered wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible...

SKU: AF-1881 | Brand: Adafruit

A 2-metre length of black 26AWG stranded-core wire with a flexible silicone sheath. Silicone-covered wire is significantly more supple and heat-resistant than standard PVC wire — rated to handle up to 200 °C and 600 V...

SKU: AF-2174 | Brand: Adafruit

Keep your 5 mm LEDs securely mounted with these lightweight plastic LED holders featuring a bevelled finish. Simply slot the LED through the opening and it snaps into place — no tools or hardware needed. The bevelled ...

SKU: AF-2264 | Brand: Adafruit

The Adafruit FT232H Breakout turns your computer into a versatile interface for hardware protocols. Using the FTDI FT232H chip with its multi-protocol synchronous serial engine, you can communicate directly with I2C, ...

SKU: AF-2165 | Brand: Adafruit

A popular low-dropout (LDO) 3.3 V linear voltage regulator based on the LD1117 in a TO-220 package. With approximately 1 V dropout and up to 800 mA output current, it cleanly steps down 5–15 V supplies to a regulated ...

SKU: AF-1993 | Brand: Adafruit

This 2×20 (40-pin) IDC box header is the matching connector for 40-pin GPIO ribbon cables used with Raspberry Pi models that have a 40-pin GPIO header. Solder it onto perfboard to create a breakout point for your Pi's...

SKU: AF-2336 | Brand: Adafruit

11 millimeters that is! Our Black Plated M/F Brass Standoffs are engineered specifically to keep your Pi HAT snug on your Pi while also keeping the two boards separated, in particular the HDMI port. These...

SKU: AF-2429 | Brand: Adafruit

Pogo pins are little spring-loaded contacts, very handy for making jigs, or making momentary (but electrically solid) contacts. We use them by the dozen for making programming and testing jigs but they're handy also i...

SKU: AF-2463 | Brand: Adafruit

Add a micro-slice standard solderless breadboard to your Perma-Proto or other perf-board. This 4x4 point solder-less breadboard is a good way to add some solderless prototyping space if you just need to have...

SKU: DF-FIT0188 | Brand: DFRobot

A compact 10-segment LED bar graph in super bright red. Each segment is an individual LED housed together in a standard-size package, making it easy to drive from a microcontroller or shift register. Low power consump...

SKU: SF-COM-09278 | Brand: SparkFun

It’s not what project you have in mind that may use a rocket launch switch… The question is what project will you come up with once you have one in hand? Everyone has a proverbial missile to launch.The hot red safety ...

SKU: SF-COM-09288 | Brand: SparkFun

An adjustable potentiometer can open up many interesting user interfaces. Turn the pot and the resistance changes. Connect VCC to an outer pin, GND to the other, and the center pin will have a voltage that varies from...

SKU: SF-PRT-09279 | Brand: SparkFun

This is a 8-pin female header, with extra long legs – great for stacking Arduino shields. Pins are spaced by 0.1". Documents: Datasheet

SKU: SF-SEN-14262 | Brand: SparkFun

The SparkFun Sound Detector is a small and very easy-to-use audio sensing board with three different outputs. The Sound Detector not only provides an audio output, but also a binary indication of the presence of sound...

SKU: SF-COM-09151 | Brand: SparkFun

A compact 0.5W speaker with 8 ohm impedance, small enough to fit inside robot builds, enclosures, and portable electronics projects. Suitable for audio output from amplifier boards, microcontrollers with DAC/PWM audio...

SKU: SF-BOB-09118 | Brand: SparkFun

This is a board designed for opto-isolation. This board is helpful for connecting digital systems (like a 5V microcontroller) to a high-voltage or noisy system. This board electrically isolates a controller from the h...

SKU: SF-PRT-09044 | Brand: SparkFun

A standard 2-pin jumper shunt used to create an electrical connection between two adjacent pin headers. Commonly used to configure settings on development boards, select operating modes, or bridge header pins on PCBs....