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.
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
Rugged Metal On/Off Switch - 22mm 6V RGB On/Off
SKU: AF-3424 | Brand: Adafruit
This chrome-plated rugged metal pushbutton features a built-in RGB LED ring light and a latching on/off mechanism. Press once to latch on, press again to release — unlike momentary buttons, it stays in position. Simpl...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
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
SparkFun Haptic Motor Driver - DRV2605L
SKU: SF-ROB-14538 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Haptic Motor Driver breakout board features the Texas Instruments DRV2605L, providing an easy way to add tactile feedback to your projects. Connect a vibration motor, communicate over I2C from any Arduino...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
SparkFun Capacitive Touch Breakout - AT42QT1011
SKU: SF-SEN-14520 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Capacitive Touch Breakout provides a single momentary touch button using the AT42QT1011 capacitive sense chip. Simply supply 1.8–5 V and ground — the chip handles all touch monitoring and outputs a digita...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Panel-Mount Banana Jacks 4mm - Pack of 5 Multi-Color
SKU: AF-3691 | Brand: Adafruit
You've done such a great job making your own electronic control panel that the last thing you need are those wires to get pulled out and frizzy. These fancy Panel-Mount Banana Jacks look good and ...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
SD Card Extender - 68cm (26 inch) long cable
SKU: AF-3687 | Brand: Adafruit
Stop fiddling with SD card sockets in the back of your latest gadget, and streeeeeeeeeetch out with an SD Card Extender . This simple, but effective device gives you a long flexible cable, a pseudo-card on one en...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
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
Break-away 0.1 36-pin strip right-angle male header (10 pack)
SKU: AF-1540 | Brand: Adafruit
Breakaway header is like the duct tape of electronics. Its great for connecting things together, soldering to perf-boards, fits into any breadboard, etc. We go through these guys real fast, and thought that given how ...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
10-pin 2x5 Socket-Socket 1.27mm IDC (SWD) Cable - 150mm long
SKU: AF-1675 | Brand: Adafruit
A 150mm IDC ribbon cable with 10-pin 2×5 socket connectors at 1.27mm (0.05") pitch on both ends. Designed for SWD (Serial Wire Debug) programming and debugging connections commonly found on ARM Cortex development boar...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Resistive Touchscreen Overlay - 7 diag. 165mm x 105mm - 4 Wire
SKU: AF-1676 | Brand: Adafruit
If you already have a 7" TFT that is about 165mm x 105mm in size (with a visible area equal to or smaller than 152mm x 91mm), you can put this glass resistive overlay over it to add a resistive touch screen. To us...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
50-pin 0.5mm Pitch FPC Flex Cable - 250mm / 10 long
SKU: AF-1682 | Brand: Adafruit
This 50-pin FPC (Flexible Printed Circuit) cable is ultra-thin and flexible, ideal for tight spaces where a round cable would be too bulky. At 250mm (10″) long with 0.5mm pitch contacts, it's a common format used in d...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
Silicone Cover Stranded-Core Wire - 2m 30AWG Black
SKU: AF-2003 | Brand: Adafruit
Super-flexible, silicone-sheathed stranded-core wire in black. The silicone insulation is incredibly soft and supple, making this wire ideal for wearable electronics, robotics, and any project where the wiring needs t...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Stereo 20W Class D Audio Amplifier - MAX9744
SKU: AF-1752 | Brand: Adafruit
A compact Class D stereo amplifier breakout based on the Maxim MAX9744. It drives two channels of 4–8 Ω speakers at up to 20 W each, powered from 4.5–14 V DC. With up to 93% efficiency, it runs cool without heatsinks ...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
Silicone Cover Stranded-Core Wire - 2m 26AWG White
SKU: AF-1882 | 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...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
UV/UVA 400nm Purple LED 5mm Clear Lens - 10 pack
SKU: AF-1793 | Brand: Adafruit
Need some really bright LEDs? We are big fans of these 5mm clear UV / Purple LEDs. These emit UV 'blacklight' in the UVA spectrum so they are great for projects with fluorescent materials referred to as UV/blacklight-...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
USB Micro-B Breakout Board
SKU: AF-1833 | Brand: Adafruit
This breakout board gives you easy access to all 5 pins of a USB Micro-B connector via standard 0.1" header pins. It's a simple way to add USB 5V power to a project, interface with a USB-capable microcontroller, or pr...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
JTAG (2x10 2.54mm) to SWD (2x5 1.27mm) Cable Adapter Board
SKU: AF-2094 | Brand: Adafruit
This adapter board is designed for adapting a 'classic' 2x10 (0.1"/2.54mm pitch) JTAG cable to a slimmer 2x5 (0.05"/1.27mm pitch) SWD Cable. It's helpful for using products like the JTAGulator or SEGGER J-...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
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