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Empower your prototyping endeavors with Little Bird's comprehensive Prototyping collection, available now in Australia! We offer everything you need to bring your electronic ideas to life, from fundamental components like alligator clips and resistors to specialized elements like diodes and MOSFET power switches, all with fast and reliable shipping.

Fuel your creativity and build with confidence:

  • Alligator Clips: Establish temporary connections and facilitate easy circuit testing during the prototyping phase.
  • Resistors: Control current flow and voltage levels, playing a crucial role in various electronic circuits.
  • Diodes: Allow current flow in one direction, enabling essential functionalities like signal rectification and protection.
  • MOSFET Power Switches: Manage high-power applications with robust and efficient switching capabilities.
  • And More: Discover a diverse range of additional components like breadboards, jumper wires, prototyping shields, and more to support your projects.

Perfect for makers of all experience levels, Little Bird's Prototyping collection empowers you to:

  • Build and test circuits efficiently: Experiment with different configurations and troubleshoot issues with ease.
  • Learn electronics fundamentals: Gain practical experience with essential components and understand their functionalities.
  • Bring your ideas to life: Prototype your electronic creations before committing to final designs.

Start building today! Shop Little Bird's Prototyping collection and unlock a world of creative possibilities.

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    Premium Male/Male Jumper Wires - 20 x 6 (150mm)

    SKU: AF-1957  Adafruit
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    These Male/Male Jumper Wires are handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires are 6" (15...

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    Hakko Professsional Quality 20-30 AWG Wire Strippers [CSP-30-1]

    SKU: AF-527  Adafruit
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    These are the finest wire strippers we have used, and if you have to do a lot of wiring, you will agree! They have soft rounded grips - very com...

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    2N2222A NPN Transistor

    SKU: TB-ZT2298  Little Bird
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    The 2N2222A is a widely used general-purpose NPN bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in a TO-92 package. With a maximum collector current of 800 mA a...

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    LED - Assorted (20 pack)

    SKU: SF-COM-12062  SparkFun
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    We all know that you can never get too many LEDs. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. This is a pack of basic red, yellow, blue and green 5mm LEDs ...

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    Snap Action 1-to-5 Wiring Block Connector

    SKU: AF-5616  Adafruit
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    Snap action blocks are perfect when you have to quickly wire up a bunch of free-hanging components, and you don't want to solder. They're much easi...

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    Large Alligator Test Leads - 10 Pack 45mm Clip

    SKU: LB-LS3808  Little Bird
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    Looking for a chunkier Alligator clip.  These 45mm clips work well with the Micro:bit and give you a larger clip to work with.Alligator clips (o...

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    Adafruit Perma-Proto Half-sized Breadboard PCB - Single

    SKU: AF-1609  Adafruit
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    The Adafruit Perma-Proto Half-Sized Breadboard PCB mirrors the layout of a standard half-size solderless breadboard, making it simple to transfer p...

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    Third Hand

    SKU: SF-TOL-09317  SparkFun
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    This is a solderer’s best helper, the third hand. Comes with a heavy base, two alligator clips, a soldering iron holder, and a good magnifying g...

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    74HC595 Shift Register - 3 pack

    SKU: AF-450  Adafruit
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    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. C...

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    Jumper Wires - Connected 6 (M/F, 20 pack)

    SKU: SF-PRT-12794  SparkFun
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    These are 6" long jumper wires terminated as male to female. Use these to jumper from any male or female header on any board. Multiple jumpers c...

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    Maker Essentials - Various Headers

    SKU: PR-PIM247  Little Bird
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    If you're going to be adding and removing wires to a project, these 2.54 pitch headers are an ideal way to make it easy and reliable. This box h...

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    Learn to solder

    SKU: PI-BK0409  Pimoroni
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    Learn the fundamentals of soldering—and pick up an essential skill for building electronic gadgets. You’ll discover how to preheat and tin your ...

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    Teensy 4.1 without Ethernet (Headers)

    SKU: SF-DEV-20360  SparkFun
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    The Teensy 4.1 is the newest iteration of the astoundingly popular development platform that features an ARM Cortex-M7 processor at 600MHz, with...

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    JST PH 3-pin Plug-Plug Cable - 100mm long

    SKU: AF-4336  Adafruit
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    This cable is a little over 100mm / 4" long and fitted with JST-PH 3-pin connectors on either end. We dig the solid and compact nature of these con...

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    Very Best Quality T Safety 9V Battery Clip

    SKU: TB-PH9234  Little Bird
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    We call these safety clips because the side of the clip totally covers the battery terminals and sits flush on the top of the battery. Supplied wi...

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    1N4148 SMT SOD-123 Diodes - 100 Pack

    SKU: AF-5099  Adafruit
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    A bulk pack of 100 surface-mount 1N4148 signal diodes in SOD-123 package. These are the same fast-switching 1N4148 diodes used in through-hole proj...

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    Through-Hole Resistors - 4.7K ohm 5% 1/4W - Pack of 25

    SKU: AF-2783  Adafruit
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    ΩMG! You're not going to be able to resist these handy resistor packs! Well, axially, they do all of the resisting for you! This is a 25 Pack o...

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    Jumper Jerky - Male to Female

    SKU: PI-CAB0005  Little Bird
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    Rainbow coloured jumper strips, perfect for use with our mini breadboards!Each strip of jerky contains 40 individual jumper leads, 185mm long, whic...

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    20/130W Soldering Iron Starter Kit

    SKU: TB-TS1651  Little Bird
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    A complete soldering starter kit with everything a hobbyist needs to get started. The kit centres around a 240V turbo soldering iron with switchabl...

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    Solder wick [3S 5ft.]

    SKU: AF-149  Adafruit
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    5ft spool - Used along with the solder sucker to clean up soldering messes. Wick really comes in handy when soldering or desoldering surface-mount ...

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    Solderless Breadboard for Raspberry Pi Pico by Monk Makes

    SKU: AF-5422  Adafruit
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    It can be tricky to work out which pin is which when the Raspberry Pi Pico is attached to solderless breadboard. Luckily, the MonkMakes Breadboard ...

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    Automatic Self-Adjusting Wire Strippers and Cutter

    SKU: AF-4747  Adafruit
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    If you've got a lot of wire-stripping to do, you may want to try out an automatic stripper/cutter! They are fantastic for stripping and cutting ...

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    On-Off Power Button / Pushbutton Toggle Switch

    SKU: AF-1683  Adafruit
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    Push once to turn on, push again to turn off! This clicky switch makes a great power switch or mode toggler. We like this switch because it's bread...

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    Medium Vibration Sensor Switch

    SKU: AF-2384  Adafruit
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    The "poor man's" accelerometer/motion sensor! These spring-vibration switches are medium sensitivity non-directional vibration induced trigger s...

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