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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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    Potentiometer Control Rotary Knob Orange

    SKU: LB-LS0067  Little Bird
    Available (108 in Sydney)

    The knob is designed to set directly on the potentiometer's ridges so it's an easy & secure fit. It has a nice feel, with a rubbery grip, tw...

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    20/130W Soldering Iron Starter Kit

    SKU: TB-TS1651  Little Bird
    Available (2 in Sydney)

    All the soldering essentials for the hobbyist. This kit represents excellent value, the best in soldering we've seen, anywhere. The sum ...

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    Alligator to Jumper Male 20cm 10 pin

    SKU: LB-LR0293-30  Little Bird
    Available (47 in Sydney)

    For bread-boarding with unusual non-header-friendly surfaces, these cables will be your best friends! No longer will you have long strands of al...

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    Silicone Cover Stranded-Core Wire - 2m 30AWG Yellow

    SKU: AF-2004  Adafruit
    Available (1 in Sydney. 61 more at supplier)

    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 wir...

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    On-Off Power Button / Pushbutton Toggle Switch

    SKU: AF-1683  Adafruit
    Available (1 in Sydney. 100 more at supplier)

    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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    5V 1.5A Linear Voltage Regulator - 7805 TO-220

    SKU: AF-2164  Adafruit
    Available (7 in Sydney. 100 more at supplier)

    Ah the venerable 7805, who amongst us has not used this popular linear regulator? This big chunky regulator will help you get your 7-35V battery...

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    SparkFun RJ11 Breakout

    SKU: SF-BOB-14021  SparkFun
    Available (11 in Sydney. 313 more at supplier)

    This is the SparkFun RJ11 Breakout, two simple breakout boards for the common 6-pin RJ11 connector. These little boards can easily have one of o...

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    Momentary Button - Panel Mount (Red)

    SKU: SF-COM-11992  SparkFun
    Available (2 in Sydney. 507 more at supplier)

    It’s your basic red action button! This is a very useful, small, panel-mount momentary switch. It is a SPST N.O. with the threaded portion being...

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    Stranded-Core Wire Spool - 25ft - 22AWG - Red

    SKU: AF-3068  Adafruit
    Available (4 in Sydney. 100 more at supplier)

    This wire is flexible, strong, and super easy to solder, too! Stranded core wire is best used for wiring jigs where theres bending or movement ...

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    Breadboarding wire bundle

    SKU: AF-153  Adafruit
    Available (8 in Sydney. 100 more at supplier)

    75 flexible stranded core wires with stiff ends molded on in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, brown, black and white. These are a major improvemen...

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    Tactile Button switch (6mm) x 20 pack

    SKU: AF-367  Adafruit
    Available (6 in Sydney. 100 more at supplier)

    Little clicky switches are standard input "buttons" on electronic projects. These work best in a PCB but can be used on a solderless breadboard ...

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    Super-bright 5mm IR LED [940nm]

    SKU: AF-387  Adafruit
    Available (1 in Sydney. 100 more at supplier)

    Infrared LEDs are used for remote controls (they're the little LED in the part you point at your TV) and 'night-vision' cameras, and these li...

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    Break-away 0.1 36-pin strip male header (10 pieces)

    SKU: AF-392  Adafruit
    Available (6 in Sydney)

    Breakaway header is like the duct tape of electronics. Its great for connecting things together, soldering to perf-boards, fits into any breakou...

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    Resistor Kit - 1/4W (500 total)

    SKU: SF-COM-10969  SparkFun
    Available (3 in Sydney. 766 more at supplier)

    Resistors are a good thing, in fact, they’re actually crucial in a lot of circuit designs. The only problem seems to be that resistors disappear...

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    PICAXE 08M2 Microcontroller (8 pin)

    SKU: SF-COM-10803  SparkFun
    Available (8 in Sydney. 259 more at supplier)

    PICAXE-08M2 microcontroller chip. PICAXE is a neat entry-level microcontroller system that is relatively cheap to get started with. The chip is ...

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    Female Crimp Pins for 0.1 Housings 100-Pack

    SKU: PL-1930  Pololu
    Available (12 in Sydney)

    These female pins can be crimped on 22-28AWG wires and snapped into our crimp connector housings to create custom cables that are compatible wit...

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    Battery Holder - 2x18650 (wire leads)

    SKU: SF-PRT-12900  SparkFun
    Available (1 in Sydney. 311 more at supplier)

    This is an incredibly simple two cell 18650 Battery Holder. When someone thinks of 18650 Cells they tend to think of flashlights first, which is fa...

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    Breadboard - Full-Size (Bare)

    SKU: SF-PRT-12615  SparkFun
    Available (16 in Sydney. 840 more at supplier)

    Description: This is your tried and true full size solderless breadboard! It has 2 split power buses, 10 columns, and 63 rows - with a total of 830...

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    140-Piece Wire Kit

    SKU: PL-312  Pololu
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    This basic set contains 10 pieces of each of 14 different lengths. The small transparent plastic case has 5 compartments. The amount of wire is ...

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    NeoPixel Diffused 5mm Through-Hole LED - 5 Pack

    SKU: AF-1938  Adafruit
    Available (2 in Sydney. 100 more at supplier)

    LOLwut? NeoPixels in 5mm through-hole variety? Oh yes, we haz them! If you like NeoPixel strips you'll luv these 5mm diffused through-hole Ne...

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    Premium Female/Male 'Extension' Jumper Wires - 40 x 6 (150mm)

    SKU: AF-826  Adafruit
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    Handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires are 6" (150mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 4...

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    Premium Female/Male 'Extension' Jumper Wires - 20 x 6

    SKU: AF-1954  Adafruit
    Available (28 in Sydney. 100 more at supplier)

    These Female/Male Extension jumper wires are handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wire...

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    Enameled Copper Magnet Wire – 11 meters / 0.1mm diameter

    SKU: AF-3522  Adafruit
    Available (2 in Sydney. 100 more at supplier)

    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 wir...

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    Little Bird Breadboard Compatible Speaker

    SKU: LB-SPEAKER  Little Bird
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    This Breadboard Compatible Speaker (a Little Bird exclusive product) is perfect for use with a breadboard as it has jumper wires with standard h...

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