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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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    Tactile Switch Buttons (6mm tall) x 10 pack

    SKU: AF-1490  Adafruit
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    Super-tall clicky momentary switches are standard input "buttons" on electronic projects. These work best in a PCB but can be used on a solderless ...

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    Ribbon Crimp Connector - Breadboad Friendly (2x5, Female)

    SKU: SF-PRT-10965  Little Bird
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    This 2x5 crimp connector snaps onto a 10-pin ribbon cable to form a dual-inline connection that can be pushed right into a breadboard.

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    16mm Panel Mount Momentary Pushbutton - Burgundy

    SKU: AF-1503  Adafruit
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    OK, this item is pretty simple - it's a panel mount pushbutton. It's not that exciting, no LEDs, no bells & whistles. But we really like it any...

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    SparkFun Breadboard Power Supply Stick 3.3V/1.8V

    SKU: SF-PRT-10934  SparkFun
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    This is a very simple board that takes a 4-9V input voltage and outputs a selectable 1.8V or 3.3V regulated voltage. All headers are 0.1" pitch for...

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    USB Female Type B Vertical Connector

    SKU: SF-PRT-08944  Little Bird
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    USB female ‘Type B’ connector in a vertical mounting configuration. The 4 connection pins have 0.1" spacing allowing it to be inserted into develop...

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    ZIF Socket 40-Pin 0.6"

    SKU: SF-PRT-09176  Little Bird
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    This is a high-quality, easy to use 40 pin ZIF socket that is 0.6" wide with gold-plated contacts. Compatible with 0.3" up to 0.6" wide ICs up to 4...

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    Spectacle Light and Sound Kit

    SKU: SF-KIT-14173  Little Bird
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    The Spectacle Light and Sound Kit makes it easy to incorporate button-activated sound and light effects into your projects with ease! The Light and...

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    Cold 3-Wire Splice (UR) - 10 pack

    SKU: AF-1495  Little Bird
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    Kiss those days of heat-shrink, melted jacketing and clumsily-arranged third-hand tools goodbye! Go 'cold splice' with these snap-able plastic spli...

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    W25Q80BV - 1 MByte SPI Flash

    SKU: AF-1564  Little Bird
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    This adorable little DIP chip has a megabyte of flash storage. It's solid-state and less expensive than an SD card, and has more storage than yo...

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    SparkFun Tri-Color LED Breakout Kit

    SKU: SF-KIT-11588  SparkFun
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    This is a simple kit that allows the use of very large, very bright, 10mm red/green/blue LEDs. We cannot begin to describe how bright these are whe...

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    SparkFun Simon Says - Surface Mount Soldering Kit

    SKU: SF-KIT-10935  SparkFun
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    This is the latest version of the Simon SMD soldering kit, the surface mount version of our popular Simon Kit. It’s considered an intermediate kit ...

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    SparkFun Max Power IR LED Kit

    SKU: SF-KIT-10732  Little Bird
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    Infrared LEDs are awesome. Along with an IR receiver they can be used for remote control and even basic remote data communication. The only problem...

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    SparkFun Solid State Relay Kit

    SKU: SF-KIT-10684  SparkFun
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    A solid state relay (SSR) is just what it sounds like; an IC that acts like a mechanical relay. They allow you to control high-voltage AC loads fro...

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    SparkFun Learn to Solder - Simon Says

    SKU: SF-KIT-11202  Little Bird
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    Our through-hole Simon Says Kit is a great beginner’s kit and also a pretty fun toy. All components are through-hole, making this kit a great place...

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    SparkFun Beginner Parts Kit

    SKU: SF-KIT-10003  Little Bird
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    This is the new revision of the kit. We switched to a better trimpot and green LED. This is a kit that gives you all of the basic thru-hole compone...

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    tinyCylon Kit

    SKU: SF-KIT-09286  Little Bird
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    The original Cylons are from TV’s Battlestar Galactica. They are humanoid robots with a scanning red visor where their eyes should be. This is a ...

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    Professional IC Extraction Tool

    SKU: AF-1598  Little Bird
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    You take your soldering seriously, so you deserve a serious IC extractor tool. We purposefully never carried the cheap bent-sheet IC extractors, an...

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    GTE Knob - Large

    SKU: SF-COM-11950  Little Bird
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    Do you need that extra push over the cliff? The Large sized GTE (Goes To Eleven) Knob can fit onto potentiometers with a 6mm wide shaft thanks to a...

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    SparkFun 7-Segment Serial Display - Kelly Green

    SKU: SF-COM-11440  SparkFun
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    4-digit 7-segment displays are really neat little devices, it’s a shame that they can be so cumbersome to control. Well we’ve solved that proble...

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    LED - Super Bright Yellow (100 pack)

    SKU: SF-COM-09982  SparkFun
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    You can never have too many LEDs. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. This is a pack of 100 LEDs all conveniently packaged in a reusable ESD safe b...

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    LED - Super Bright Green (100 pack)

    SKU: SF-COM-09984  Little Bird
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    You can never have too many LEDs. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. This is a pack of 100 LEDs. Buy in bulk - save a ton! Features: 100 bright...

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    LED - Super Bright White (100 pack)

    SKU: SF-COM-10035  SparkFun
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    You can never have too many LEDs. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. This is a pack of 100 LEDs. Buy in bulk - save a ton!Features: 100 bright whi...

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    Miniature 0.8 8x8 Pure Green LED Matrix [KWM-20882CPGB]

    SKU: AF-1624  Adafruit
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    You will squeak with delight when you hold this adorable miniature LED matrix. 0.8" square, its got everything a big LED matrix has, but bite si...

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    Rotary Encoder - Illuminated (RGB, right-angle)

    SKU: SF-COM-10984  Little Bird
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    Rotary encoders can be used similarly to potentiometers. The difference being that that an encoder has full rotation without limits (It just goes r...

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