Prototyping

SKU: AF-450 | Brand: Adafruit

A pack of three 74HC595 shift register ICs. These chips take a serial input (SPI) of one byte and output those 8 bits onto 8 digital output pins. Chain multiple chips together by connecting the serial output of one to...

SKU: SF-COM-09590 | Brand: SparkFun

LEDs - those blinky things. A must have for power indication, pin status, opto-electronic sensors, and fun blinky displays. This is a very basic 5mm LED with a red lens. It has a typical forward voltage of 2.0V and...

SKU: SF-PRT-14492 | Brand: SparkFun

These are your run-of-the-mill ¼ Watt, +/- 5% tolerance PTH resistors. Commonly used in breadboards and other prototyping applications, these 1K ohm resistors make excellent pull-ups, pull-downs and current limiters....

SKU: PRT-BK-12043 | Brand: Little Bird

This white Mini Breadboard is a great way to prototype your small projects! With 170 tie points there’s just enough room to build and test simple circuits; They’re also great for breaking out DIP package ICs to jum...

SKU: DF-FIT0110 | Brand: DFRobot

This adapter allows you to connect a barrel jack connector to bare wires. One end has screw terminals and the other has a 5.5x2.1mm, center-positive male barrel jack. If you need to connect bare wires to a barrel ...

SKU: SF-COM-09190 | Brand: SparkFun

This is a standard 12mm square momentary button. What we really like is the large button head and good tactile feel (it ‘clicks’ really well). This button is great for user input on a PCB or a good, big reset button o...

SKU: SF-TOL-09161 | Brand: SparkFun

This is your basic spool of leaded solder with a 63/37 water soluble resin core. 0.031" gauge and 100 grams. This is a good spool for more advanced users that should last 6-12 months depending on how often you solder....

SKU: SF-PRT-12047 | Brand: SparkFun

This black Mini Breadboard is a great way to prototype your small projects! With 170 tie points there’s just enough room to build and test simple circuits; They’re also great for breaking out DIP package ICs to jumper...

SKU: SF-PRT-12046 | Brand: SparkFun

This green Mini Breadboard is a great way to prototype your small projects! With 170 tie points there’s just enough room to build and test simple circuits; They’re also great for breaking out DIP package ICs to jumper...

SKU: AF-2831 | Brand: Adafruit

This Photo Transistor Light Sensor is a simple sensor that detects ambient light. It's kind of the opposite of an LED - when light hits the little chip inside, it induces current to flow from the long pin...

SKU: SF-COM-00526 | Brand: SparkFun

The LD1117V33 is a low-dropout (LDO) positive voltage regulator with a fixed 3.3V output. With on-chip trimming providing ±1% output voltage tolerance and built-in current and thermal limiting, it's a reliable choice ...

SKU: PL-1037 | Brand: Pololu

The 0.100″ (2.54 mm) 2×20-Pin Straight Female Header is a double-row, 40-pin socket strip designed to mate with standard 0.1″ pitch male headers. This is the standard GPIO header size used on Raspberry Pi and other si...

SKU: SF-SEN-10293 | Brand: SparkFun

A simple piezo element that can be used as both a sensor and a small audio transducer. When flexed or tapped, it generates a voltage that can be read by a microcontroller, making it ideal for knock and vibration detec...

SKU: AF-3522 | Brand: Adafruit

For winding custom coils, or very fine-pitch rework, we always reach for magnet wire. Magnet wire is very very thin (0.1mm diameter!) copper wire with a very thin layer of insulation. It's used for a range of elect...

SKU: LB-LS3381-K | Brand: Little Bird

A 12 mm panel-mount momentary push button with a smooth dome-shaped cap in black, pre-wired with 20 cm red and black leads for easy connection. Normally open — pressing the button closes the contacts. Key Features ...

SKU: LB-LS3381-B | Brand: Little Bird

A 12 mm panel-mount momentary push button with a smooth dome-shaped cap in blue, pre-wired with 20 cm red and black leads for easy connection. Normally open — pressing the button closes the contacts. Key Features P...

SKU: EF-EF10130 | Brand: ElecFreaks

Alligator clips (also known as crocodile clips) are one of the most useful tools on any maker's workbench. Whether you're testing a circuit, connecting a micro:bit to external components, or extending your multimeter ...

SKU: LB-LR0381 | Brand: Little Bird

An 8-position DIP switch with standard 2.54mm (0.1") pitch, suitable for through-hole mounting on PCBs, perfboard, and breadboards. Each of the eight switches can be independently toggled on or off, making it useful f...

SKU: SU-CZ0081 | Brand: Little Bird

IntroductionThe breadboard allows you to easily plug in and remove components and so if there are going to be many changes or if you just want to make a circuit quickly, it will be much quicker than soldering up yo...

SKU: LB-00022 | Brand: Little Bird

The Cherry MX Blue switch is a light, tactile, clicky mechanical keyboard switch in the Cherry MX family. Keyboards with these switches often have the stiffer Cherry MX Green switch for the space bar.