Little Bird
Basic Electronics Component kit
This assorted electronics kit gives you a practical mix of parts for learning, experimenting and building small breadboard circuits. It covers common passive...
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This assorted electronics kit gives you a practical mix of parts for learning, experimenting and building small breadboard circuits. It covers common passives, semiconductors, ICs, indicators, sensors and wiring accessories.
The kit includes an 830-point solderless breadboard, male-to-male jumper wires and alligator clip leads, so you can quickly prototype and test circuits without committing to soldered builds.
It is a handy starter or refill selection for classrooms, makerspaces and Arduino-style electronics projects where you need common resistor values, capacitors, LEDs, transistors and interface ICs close at hand.
Specifications:
- Solderless breadboard: 1 × 830-point
- Male-to-male jumper wire set: 1 × 65-piece
- Alligator clip lead set: 1 ×
- Adjustable potentiometer: 1 ×
- Active buzzer: 1 ×
- Electrolytic capacitor: 100 µF
- Electrolytic capacitor: 10 µF
- Electrolytic capacitor: 1 µF
- Ceramic capacitor: 103 = 10 nF / 0.01 µF
- Ceramic capacitor: 22 pF
- Ceramic capacitor: 104 = 100 nF / 0.1 µF
- Tactile push buttons: included
- Darlington transistor array IC: 1 × ULN2803APG
- Shift register IC: 1 × 74HC595
- Photoresistor: 1 × LDR
- Darlington transistor: 1 × TIP122
- Voltage regulator: 1 × LM7805 5 V
- N-channel MOSFET: 1 × IRF540
- Voltage regulator: 1 × LD1117
- Thermistor: 1 ×
- Optocouplers: 4N35
- Rectifier diodes: 1N4007
- NPN transistors: 2N3904
- PNP transistors: 2N3906
- NPN transistors: BC547
- PNP transistors: BC557
- Red LEDs: 5 mm
- Yellow LEDs: 5 mm
- Green LEDs: 5 mm
- Resistor: 100 Ω
- Resistor: 200 Ω
- Resistor: 470 Ω
- Resistor: 1 kΩ
- Resistor: 2.2 kΩ
- Resistor: 4.7 kΩ
- Resistor: 10 kΩ
- Resistor: 22 kΩ
- Resistor: 100 kΩ
- Resistor: 330 kΩ
- Resistor: 1 MΩ
- Total: 38 different component types/values, including the breadboard and wire sets
A useful grab-and-go parts box for basic analogue and digital circuit experiments.
Jargon buster
Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- 1N4007
- A common general-purpose rectifier diode rated for relatively high reverse voltage. It is often used in power supplies and protection circuits where speed is not critical.
- alligator clip
- An alligator clip is a spring-loaded metal clip used to make temporary electrical connections to wires, terminals or test points. It is useful for quick bench testing, but it is less secure than a screw terminal or locking connector.
- electrolytic capacitor
- An electrolytic capacitor is a type of capacitor that can store relatively large amounts of electrical charge in a small package. It is commonly used for smoothing power supplies, reducing noise, and short-term energy storage, but it usually has polarity so it must be installed the correct way around.
- LDR
- A light-dependent resistor is a component whose resistance changes with light level. It is useful for simple brightness sensing, and an ADC board is needed to turn its changing analogue voltage into numbers a microcontroller or computer can read.
- male-to-male
- A male-to-male cable has plug-style connectors on both ends rather than a socket on one end. This matters when choosing a cable because it must match the female sockets on the modules or boards you want to connect.
- photocell
- A light-sensitive component whose electrical resistance changes with the amount of light falling on it. It matters when choosing or using light sensors, automatic lights, or brightness-detecting circuits because its response speed, resistance range, and sensitivity affect how reliably it detects light levels.
- potentiometer
- A variable resistor usually turned with a knob or shaft to create an adjustable electrical signal. It is often used for inputs such as volume, brightness or position, so it helps beginners learn how a microcontroller reads changing values.
- rectifier diode
- A diode designed to let current flow mainly in one direction, often used to convert AC into DC or to protect circuits from reverse current. It matters because rectifier diodes are chosen for power handling rather than fast signal switching.
- solderless breadboard
- A reusable board with rows of internally connected holes for building circuits by pushing in components and jumper wires, with no soldering required. It lets you prototype and rewire a circuit quickly and reversibly before committing to a permanent, soldered build.
