Prototyping

SKU: AF-3844 | Brand: Adafruit

A sturdy 4×4 matrix keypad with 16 buttons, providing a durable tactile input option for microcontroller projects. This hard-button keypad offers a more robust feel compared to membrane keypads, making it well-suited ...

SKU: AF-3825 | Brand: Adafruit

Testing is an important step in board manufacturing. And it can be super tricky on a fully populated PCB. So how can you test connections when you have an assortment of components blocking your probe? The...

SKU: AF-2207 | Brand: Adafruit

These 40-pin IC sockets let you insert and remove DIP chips without soldering them directly to your PCB. Solder the socket into your board once, then swap chips freely — useful for prototyping, testing, or any project...

SKU: TB-RR0632 | Brand: Little Bird

A pack of eight 330kΩ metal film resistors rated at 0.5W (½W) with 1% tolerance. These through-hole axial resistors are the same physical size as standard ¼W carbon film types, making them a drop-in upgrade where high...

SKU: AF-3945 | Brand: Adafruit

Zero Stem? More like, full stream ahead! This is a neat little PCB shim that transforms your Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB dongle! Super handy when you want to share your computer's Internet connection without messi...

SKU: PI-COM1005 | Brand: Pimoroni

You'll find these rotary potentiometers in our Maker Essentials kit, but they're so useful we decided to offer them on their own! Pair them with something like our Explorer HAT Pro or Explorer pHAT to rea...

SKU: PI-COM-B005 | Brand: Pimoroni

580 resistors (29 values, 20 pieces of each) go into this great starter pack (or refill!) with a wide range of useful values. The kit contains 20 each of:10Ω22Ω47Ω68Ω100Ω120Ω150Ω180Ω220Ω270Ω330Ω470Ω560Ω680Ω1kΩ...

SKU: AF-1043 | Brand: Adafruit

A compact aluminium heat sink from Cool Innovations, designed for surface-mount components such as SoCs, motor drivers, and other SMT packages. Trusted by engineers for its low cost, ease of use, and excellent thermal...

SKU: AF-1074 | Brand: Adafruit

Spring terminal blocks will simplify your wiring and make your project more rugged. Instead of soldering wires to your perf board, solder in these 0.1" pitch terminal blocks. There's a little spring contact so you ...

SKU: TB-SP0720 | Brand: Little Bird

PCB Mount, single pole, momentary. Suitable for keyboards, security systems, etc. 5 colours. - These switches are normally open SPST. When button is depressed the switch closes, but only while the button is down.- C...

SKU: AF-1116 | Brand: Adafruit

Board edge mounting standoffs designed to grip standard 1.6 mm (0.062") thick PCBs by the edge or corner — no mounting holes required. An elegant solution for securing boards like the original Raspberry Pi or any PCB ...

SKU: AF-1206 | Brand: Adafruit

The Adafruit SMT Breakout PCB for 20-pin SOIC or TSSOP packages lets you easily prototype with surface-mount chips on standard solderless breadboards. One side accommodates a 20-pin TSSOP footprint while the other sup...

SKU: AF-1215 | Brand: Adafruit

Get swinging with this handy plastic hinge, attach it to your 20mm extrusion and you can have parts that swing open 180 degrees. Using our button screws, the bumpy heads make it close around ~170 degrees, you can subs...

SKU: AF-1230 | Brand: Adafruit

Beguiled by a fancy new chip, regulator or transistor that is only available in a SOT23-3, SOT23-5, SOT23-6, SOT-223, SOT-89, or TO-252 pinout? This set of breakout PCBs will make your life much much easier and get...

SKU: LB-LR0335-Y | Brand: Little Bird

This 5-metre length of EL wire (electroluminescent wire) glows a vibrant yellow when powered by the included battery-operated inverter. EL wire is a flexible, phosphor-coated wire that produces a cool, even glow simil...

SKU: AF-1281 | Brand: Adafruit

You know those ZIF sockets we have for DIP chips? Well these are just like that but for SMT parts! Yeah, that's right, now you can program and test out your favorite new parts in SOIC Wide packages. This test sockets ...

SKU: AF-1280 | Brand: Adafruit

You know those ZIF sockets we have for DIP chips? Well these are just like that but for SMT parts! Yeah, that's right, now you can program and test out your favorite new parts in TSSOP packages. This test sockets is g...

SKU: AF-1283 | Brand: Adafruit

You know those ZIF sockets we have for DIP chips? Well these are just like that but for SMT parts! Yeah, that's right, now you can program and test out your favorite new parts in SOIC-16 or smaller packages. This test...

SKU: AF-1312 | Brand: Adafruit

This is the easiest way possible to add small, bright RGB pixels to your project. We took the same technology from our Flora NeoPixels and made them breadboard friendly, with two rows of 3 x 0.1" spaced header on e...

SKU: AF-1446 | Brand: Adafruit

This stuff is called "wire-wrap wire" because it used to be used for wire-wrapping high-speed digital circuits on a special kind of contact board. It's pretty rare to see wire-wrapping in these days of low-cost PCB...