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.
Aluminum Flex Shaft Coupler - 5mm to 5mm
SKU: AF-1175 | Brand: Adafruit
A machined aluminium flexible shaft coupler for connecting two 5mm shafts. The spiral-cut design provides slight flexibility to accommodate minor misalignment between shafts, reducing binding without introducing rotat...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
2x20 Socket Riser Header for Raspberry Pi HATs and Bonnets
SKU: AF-4079 | Brand: Adafruit
This 2×20 female socket riser header features slightly longer-than-standard pins, adding extra height between your Raspberry Pi and any HAT, Bonnet, or pHAT mounted on top. This additional clearance helps boards clear...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Stepper Motor Mount with Hardware - NEMA-17 Sized
SKU: AF-1297 | Brand: Adafruit
You have a stepper motor, but you need to attach it to your CNC project, eh? Not so easy if you don't have a stepper motor mount just like this fine one here! This mount will fit any NEMA-17 motor (with 31mm hole...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Membrane 1x4 Keypad + Extras
SKU: AF-1332 | Brand: Adafruit
Punch in your secret key into this numeric membrane keypad. This keypad has 4 buttons, and since every key has its own wire line, no matrix code is required - just treat these like every day switches. The membrane is ...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Breadboard Base for Pibow
SKU: PR-PIM086 | Brand: Little Bird
A laser-cut acrylic base plate that replaces the bottom layer of a Pibow case, adding a secure mounting area for breadboard prototyping alongside your Raspberry Pi. Compatible with Raspberry Pi 3, A+, Zero, and Zero W...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
I/O Expander - MCP23008
SKU: SF-COM-15099 | Brand: SparkFun
Add another eight pins to your microcontroller using a MCP23008 port expander. The MCP23008 uses two I2C pins which can be shared with other I2C devices, and in exchange gives you eight general purpose pins. You can s...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
USB / DC / Solar Lithium Ion/Polymer charger [v2]
SKU: AF-390 | Brand: Adafruit
This versatile LiIon/LiPo battery charger accepts power from three sources: a 6 V solar panel (via 2.1 mm DC jack), USB Mini-B, or a 5 V DC adapter. It features automatic charging current tracking that draws the maxim...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
4xAA Press-Stud Battery Holder - Default
SKU: PI-COM1304 | Brand: Pimoroni
A 4×AA battery holder with press-stud (snap) termination, providing a portable power source for wearable and on-the-go projects. With four alkaline AA batteries, it delivers approximately 6V with 7,000–10,000 mAh of c...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
ZIP LEDs Add-On Pack for Kitronik Inventors Kit for micro:bit
SKU: KI-5603-ZIP | Brand: Kitronik
An add-on pack for the Kitronik Inventor's Kit that introduces individually addressable RGB LEDs (ZIP LEDs) to your BBC micro:bit projects. Through ten guided experiments, you'll learn how to control LED colours, anim...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
16mm Panel Mount Momentary Pushbutton - Red
SKU: AF-1445 | Brand: Adafruit
A clean, rounded 16mm panel-mount momentary pushbutton in red. This normally-open micro-switch connects the contacts only while pressed, making it a straightforward input for any project enclosure or control panel. K...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Tactile Switch Buttons (6mm slim) x 20 pack
SKU: AF-1489 | Brand: Adafruit
Slim tactile momentary switches — the standard input buttons for electronic projects. These are half the width of classic 6mm tactile switches, so they line up neatly on a breadboard when plugged into every other row....
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Adafruit Flex Perma-Proto - Half-sized Breadboard Flex-PCB
SKU: AF-1518 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Flex Perma-Proto is a half-sized breadboard-layout prototyping board made from ultra-thin polyamide film. It bends, twists, and can even be cut to shape with scissors — perfect for wearables, curved enclo...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
LED Strip Pigtail Connector (2-pin)
SKU: SF-CAB-14574 | Brand: SparkFun
These 2-pin JST-SM pigtail connectors mate perfectly with LED strips and other applications that require only two lines and an option for quick connection and disconnection. Even if you don’t have a specific use for t...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
6mm SPST Micro Tactile Switch
SKU: TB-SP0603 | Brand: Little Bird
A normally open SPST micro tactile switch in a compact 6×6mm package. This single-action momentary push button is designed for PCB mounting and is suitable for a wide range of electronics projects and prototyping appl...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
1M Ohm 1 Watt Carbon Film Resistors - Pack of 2
SKU: TB-RR2846 | Brand: Little Bird
A pack of two 1 MΩ carbon film resistors rated at 1 W continuous power. These through-hole axial resistors feature colour-coded bands for easy identification and solder legs for breadboard or PCB mounting. Specificat...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Double-sided Mounting Tape - 25m
SKU: TB-NM2823 | Brand: Little Bird
For light-duty mounting applications.Two roll sizes available: * 10m roll Cat No. NM-2821* 25m roll Cat No. NM-2823 Specifications Type Double Sided Roll Length 25m Tape width 12mm Warranty: 3Months
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Cold Splice Wire Tap (UB) - 10 pack
SKU: AF-1494 | Brand: Adafruit
Kiss those days of heat-shrink, melted jacketing and clumsily-arranged third-hand tools goodbye! Go 'cold splice' with these snap-able plastic splices for fast connections. Use with any 22-26 AWG solid core wire and s...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
DS2413 1-Wire Two GPIO Controller Breakout
SKU: AF-1551 | Brand: Adafruit
You're too cool for I2C, and SPI has so many wires, 8-bit parallel... how can that be fashionable!? You are a 1-Wire kinda gal, and you want more 1-Wire breakouts in your life to complement all of your great engineeri...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
1 pin dual-female jumper wire 100mm 50pcs pack
SKU: SS-110990032 | Brand: Seeed Studio
A pack of 50 individual jumper wires, each 100 mm long with female connectors on both ends (female-to-female). These single-pin wires are ideal for making point-to-point connections on breadboards, between header pins...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
GPIO Header for Raspberry Pi - Extra tall 2x13 Female Header
SKU: AF-1658 | Brand: Adafruit
Connect your own PCB to a Raspberry Pi with this extra-tall female header. The female header part has extra spaces to make it 13.6mm tall: when placed on your Pi, a PCB will clear the Ethernet and USB jacks. This h...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
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