Prototyping

These Male/Male Jumper Wires are 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 20 (2 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" male header contacts on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best part is they...

These Female/Male Extension jumper wires are 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 20 (2 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" male header contacts on one end and 0.1" female header contacts on the other. They fit cleanly next to each other on...

These female-female jumper wires are 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 20 (2 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" female header contacts on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best part is...

This is a 'full-size' premium quality breadboard, 830 tie points. Good for small and medium projects. It's 2.2" x 7" (5.5 cm x 17 cm) with a standard double-strip in the middle and two power rails on both sides. You can pull the power rails off easily to make the breadboard as thin as 1.4" (3.5cm). You can also "snap" these breadboards together, either way, to make...

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 easier to use than wire nuts, and of course, they are reusable and do not require any crimping! This is a 1 to 5 wire block: there is one separate input and five outputs. Great for basic power or signal fan-outs, you would...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these HDMI adapters are right up your alley! Making custom HDMI cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our HDMI ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our HDMI adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a straight HDMI plug. Ribbon cable and other adapter not included!...

If you're looking to make a custom cable with any two of our USB or HDMI adapters, then you'll need to have these flex cables handy! Making custom cables has never been easier. Just grab one of these cables, then swap and switch any of the plug or socket adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This is the 20 cm (~8 inches)...

We've carrying a new 1.27mm pitch 2x5 Mini SWD 0.05" Pitch Connector. It's a tinier, bite-sized version of the Box Header used on our SWD Cable Breakout Board. Instead of a full shroud, there's a half-shroud with a key-notch. It'll takes a lot less space on your board! The header alone is great if you want to incorporate this piece of hardware with your own software....

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 wire with a very thin layer of insulation. It's used for a range of electronics, hacking and making applications. Commonly these are used for winding transformers, inductors, motor or solenoid coils, speakers, hard disk head...

Beguiled by a fancy new chip that is only available in a SOIC or MSOP/(T)SSOP pinout? This breakout PCB set will make your life much much easier and get you prototyping faster than ever. One side has a 8-TSSOP/8-MSOP pin out with traces going to two rows of 0.1" spaced holes, the other has 8-SOIC. Solder your chip to either side and you're ready to rock on any...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these HDMI adapters are right up your alley! Making custom HDMI cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our HDMI ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our HDMI adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a right angle (right bend) Micro HDMI plug. Ribbon cable and other...

This is a cute, half-size breadboard with 400 tie points, good for small projects. It's 3.25" x 2.2" / 8.3cm x 5.5cm with a standard double-strip in the middle and two power rails on both sides. You can pull the power rails off easily to make the breadboard as thin as 1.4" (3.5cm). You can also "snap" these breadboards together, either way, to make longer and/or...

These jumper cables are exactly what you need to connect common 0.1" header devices together. Sure you can tape together individual 1x1 header jumpers, but why not do it right? Use with perf-board, breadboards, breakouts, and more. You'll have a solid cable for quickly connecting any 2.54mm / 0.1" boards. Sometimes these connectors are called "Berg" or "Dupont" or...

Here's a handy 6cm x 8cm Proto-board PCB that is meant for use with 2mm pitch parts - like maybe an XBee. Both sides have a green silkscreen with some row/column markings. Note that these don't have any traces between the PCB holes; you would normally bend over a thru-hole lead to create connections. They're also good for just plain mechanical work because they are...

Handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires are 3" (75mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 20 (2 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" male header contacts on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best part is they come in a 20-pin ribbon cable. You...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these HDMI adapters are right up your alley! Making custom HDMI cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our HDMI ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our HDMI adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a right angle (left bend) HDMI plug. Ribbon cable and other adapter...

These jumper cables are exactly what you need to connect common 0.1" header devices together. Sure you can tape together individual 1x1 header jumpers, but why not do it right? Use with perf-board, breadboards, breakouts, and more. You'll have a solid cable for quickly connecting any 2.54mm / 0.1" boards. Sometimes these connectors are called "Berg" or "Dupont" or...

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 easier to use than wire nuts, and of course, they are reuseable and do not require any crimping! This is a 3 to 3 wire block: there are three separate inputs and three separate outputs. They're color coded so easy to follow,...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these HDMI adapters are right up your alley! Making custom HDMI cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our HDMI ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our HDMI adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a right angle (right bend) HDMI plug. Ribbon cable and other adapter...

These jumper cables are exactly what you need to connect common 0.1" header devices together. Sure you can tape together individual 1x1 header jumpers, but why not do it right? Use with perf-board, breadboards, breakouts, and more. You'll have a solid cable for quickly connecting any 2.54mm / 0.1" boards. Sometimes these connectors are called "Berg" or "Dupont" or...

These female-female premium jumper wires are handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. They're 3" (75mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 20 (2 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" female header contacts on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best part is they come in a...

These Male/Male Jumper Wires are handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires are 12" (300mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 20 (2 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" male header contacts on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best part is they...

This cute hard-covered booklet will make storing your SMT parts a breeze with translucent flip-pages that are designed for keeping taped parts. The book has 20 pages, 19 of them are for 8mm tape (the most common size of tape by far) and 1 page is for 24mm or smaller tape. Each page has multiple 'slots' that you can slide your tape into. The slots are about 3.5" long,...

These Female/Male 'Extension' Jumper Wires are handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires are 12" (300mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 20 (2 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" male header contacts on one end and 0.1" female header contacts on the other. They fit cleanly next to each other on...

These are the easiest way possible to connect two wires - no if's, and's, or butt's! Well, actually, these are often referred to as wire butts 'cause you 'butt' two wires together (hey we didn't come up with the name!) Butt seriously folks! OK, so despite the humor, these are really handy. If you want to quickly prototype some wiring, skip the soldering and use these...

These premium female-female jumper wires are handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCBs. They're 200mm (~7.8") long and come loose as a pack of 40 (10 pieces of red, blue, yellow, and Adafruit black). They have 0.1" female header contacts on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. These jumper...

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 easier to use than wire nuts, and of course, they are reuseable and do not require any crimping! This is a 2 to 6 wire block: there are two separate inputs and two sets of three outputs. They're color-coded so easy to follow;...

Customers have asked us to carry basic perf-board, but we never liked the look of most basic perf: it's always crummy quality, with pads that flake off and no labeling. Then we thought about how people actually prototype - usually starting with a solderless breadboard and then transferring the parts to a more permanent PCB. That's when we realized what people would...

If you're looking to make a custom cable with any two of our USB or HDMI adapters, then you'll need to have these flex cables handy! Making custom cables has never been easier. Just grab one of these cables, then swap and switch any of the plug or socket adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This is the 10 cm (~4 inches)...

This cute 3.2″ × 2.1″ (82 × 53mm) solderless half-size breadboard has four bus lines and 30 rows of pins, our favorite size of solderless breadboard for projects. You get a whoppin' 400 tie points! Plug in a Feather or Metro Mini with the rest for sensors or buttons or even a little display. You can pull the power rails off easily to make the...

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 easier to use than wire nuts, and of course, they are reusable and do not require any crimping! These are 1 to 1 wire blocks: there is one separate input and one output. Great for basic power or signal splicing. These...

These Female/Male 'extension' jumper wires for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires are 3" (75mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 20 (2 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" male header contacts on one end and 0.1" female header contacts on the other. They fit cleanly next to each other on...

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 easier to use than wire nuts, and of course, they are reuseable and do not require any crimping! This is a 5 to 5 wire block: there are five separate inputs and five separate outputs. They're color coded so easy to follow; the...

The Pogo Pin Probe Clip with 6 pins in a 2.54 / 0.1" pitch spacing is a great way to test and connect with pin-point accuracy without soldering! It's sort of like an alligator clip with an array of built-in springy pogo pins - so you can connect to a PCB with classic 0.1" spaced pad holes, without soldering or a special adapter cable. The clip is constructed from PCB...

If you're looking to make a custom cable with any two of our USB or HDMI adapters, then you'll need to have these flex cables handy! Making custom cables has never been easier. Just grab one of these cables, then swap and switch any of the plug or socket adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This is the 50 cm (~20 inches)...

Perfect for bread-boarding, free wiring, etc. This spool of solid-core wire is easy to solder to. When bent it keeps its shape pretty well. We like to have a few spools of this stuff around. We suggest picking up wire strippers to match. Wire gauge is 22 AWG which we've found is the best all-around gauge, it works best with breadboards and perfboards but also fits in...

Beguiled by a fancy new chip that is only available in a SOIC or (T)SSOP pinout? This breakout PCB set will make your life much much easier and get you prototyping faster than ever. One side has a 16-TSSOP pin out with traces going to two rows of 0.1" spaced holes, the other has 16-SOIC. Solder your chip to either side and you're ready to rock on any solderless...

Beguiled by a fancy new chip that is only available in a SOIC or (T)SSOP pinout? This breakout PCB set will make your life much much easier and get you prototyping faster than ever. One side has a 14-TSSOP pin out with traces going to two rows of 0.1" spaced holes, the other has 14-SOIC. Solder your chip to either side and you're ready to rock on any solderless...

These Female/Female Jumper Wires are handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires are 12" (300mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 20 (2 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" female header contacts on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best part is...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with 2m of black wire. The...

Handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires are 3" (75mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 40 (4 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" male header contacts on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best part is they come in a 40-pin ribbon cable. You...

Perfect for bread-boarding, free wiring, etc. This spool of solid-core wire is easy to solder to. When bent it keeps its shape pretty well. We like to have a few spools of this stuff around. We suggest picking up wire strippers to match. Wire gauge is 22 AWG which we've found is the best all-around gauge, it works best with breadboards and perfboards but also fits in...

With most of our dev boards, sensors and feathers now sporting plug-and-play stemma QT ports it can be very fast to put together projects with half a dozen boards snapped together. But that ease of use has one downside: now you don't have a breadboard as a mechanical substrate... which is why we created this nifty swirly grid design to allow for easy mounting of...

75 flexible stranded core wires with stiff ends molded on in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, brown, black and white. These are a major improvement over the "box of bent wires" that are sometimes sold with breadboards, and faster than stripping your own solid core wires. Makes breadboarding super fast. Approximately 75 wires in a mix of colors. ~55 short wires 4.5"...

Imagine terminal blocks that are cut out of one solid piece of brass, designed to distribute power. Well, that's what we have here! These machined bus bars are for when you want to distribute power through a project, we think they are ideal for robots and LED pixel grids where you have tons of current and a lot of loose wiring to control Each bus has 7 holes bored...

Here's a handy 3-pack of 4cm x 6cm Proto-board PCBs in Adafruit Black. Both sides have a black silkscreen with some row/column markings. Note that these don't have any traces between the PCB holes, you would normally bend over a thru-hole lead to create connections. They're also good for just plain mechanical work because they are made of strong FR4. There are also...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these HDMI adapters are right up your alley! Making custom HDMI cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our HDMI ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our HDMI adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a right angle (L) Micro HDMI plug. Ribbon cable and other adapter...

Handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires are 3" (75mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 40 (4 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" female header contacts on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best part is they come in a 40-pin ribbon cable....

Handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires approximately 6" (150mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 40 (4 pieces of each of ten colors). They have 0.1" sockets on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. We recentlty updated these so they are in a 'ribbon strip' instead...

Customers have asked us to carry basic perf-board, but we never liked the look of most basic perf: its always crummy quality, with pads that flake off and no labeling. Then we thought about how people actually prototype - usually starting with a solderless breadboard and then transferring the parts to a more permanent PCB. That's when we realized what people would...

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 easier to use than wire nuts, and of course they are reuse-able and do not require any crimping! This is a 3 to 9 wire block: there are three separate inputs, and three sets of three outputs. They're color coded so easy to...

Pogo pins are little spring-loaded contacts, very handy for making jigs, or making momentary (but electrically solid) contacts. We use them by the dozen for making programming and testing jigs but they're handy also if say you want to JTAG program a board that you can't solder headers to. Most pogo's come as individual pins, that must be soldered into a jig to make...

Make your next project as you imagine it with prototyping perfboards that can easily be cut with scissors like these Bakelite Universal Perfboard Plates! We wanted a perfboard that was both customizable and durable and bakelite was the answer. Like most perfboards these plates come on thin (1.2mm) sheets with holes drilled in a grid, each spaced 0.1" apart. There are...

These premium male-male jumper wires are handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCBs. They're 200mm (~7.8") long and come loose as a pack of 40 (10 pieces of red, blue, yellow, and Adafruit black). They have 0.1" male header contacts on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. These jumper wires...

For storing small parts (especially SMT/SMD components), these little modular boxes are ideal. They have individual clear pop-open covers so you can keep only the ones you want open - less risk of mixing up parts or having a spill. The brilliance of these boxes is that they also snap together, in any configuration you want. You can mix all the sizes to make the ideal...

This socket is good for any SOIC/SOP Wide-body 8 pin chip in a 200mil wide body. Simply flip open the latch, insert the chip, and flip down the latch to secure it in place. The chip is held securely against gold 'fingers' (no, stop, Mr. Bond! It's not that Goldfinger!) in the socket. The bottom footprint matches the same SOIC footprint so you can solder this onto an...

Customers have asked us to carry basic perf-board, but we never liked the look of most basic perf: it's always crummy quality, with pads that flake off and no labeling. Then we thought about how people actually prototype - usually starting with a solderless breadboard and then transferring the parts to a more permanent PCB. That's when we realized what people would...

For really big projects, give yourself some room to work in, with a massive 2250-point breadboard - equivalent in size to three full-sized breadboards side by side. The breadboards are mounted onto a metal plate and comes with 4 colored posts you can use with a bench-top supply. Four bumpers are included, to keep the board from slipping around your desk. As of Dec...

Customers have asked us to carry basic perf-board, but we never liked the look of most basic perf: it's always crummy quality, with pads that flake off and no labeling. Then we thought about how people actually prototype - usually starting with a solderless breadboard and then transferring the parts to a more permanent PCB. That's when we realized what people would...

Here's a handy 3-pack of 3cm x 7cm Proto-board PCBs in Adafruit Black. Both sides have a black silkscreen with some row/column markings. Note that these don't have any traces between the PCB holes, you would normally bend over a thru-hole lead to create connections. They're also good for just plain mechanical work because they are made of strong FR4 There are also...

Here's a handy 3-pack of 2cm x 8cm Proto-board PCBs in Adafruit Black. Both sides have a black silkscreen with some row/column markings. Note that these don't have any traces between the PCB holes, you would normally bend over a thru-hole lead to create connections. They're also good for just plain mechanical work because they are made of strong FR4. There are also...

This little breakout board is specifically designed for use with Raspberry Pi 5 or our RP2350 boards that have an 'HSTX' connector. These devices use a semi-standard FPC connector to pipe high speed data for video transmission over differential pairs. But maybe you want to make a custom setup or adapt to a different product? This doohickey is your pal. Basically, you...

Here's a handy 3-pack of 5cm x 7cm Proto-board PCBs in green. Both sides have a green silkscreen with some row/column markings. Note that these don't have any traces between the PCB holes, you would normally bend over a thru-hole lead to create connections. They're also good for just plain mechanical work because they are made of strong FR4 There are also four...

For storing small parts (especially SMT/SMD components), these little modular boxes are ideal. They have individual clear pop-open covers so you can keep only the ones you want open - less risk of mixing up parts or having a spill. The brilliance of these boxes is that they also snap together, in any configuration you want. You can mix all the sizes to make the ideal...

For storing small parts (especially SMT/SMD components), these little modular boxes are ideal. They have individual clear pop-open covers so you can keep only the ones you want open - less risk of mixing up parts or having a spill. The brilliance of these boxes is that they also snap together, in any configuration you want. You can mix all the sizes to make the ideal...

This is a tiny little breadboard... half the size of a half-size breadboard! As of Sep 8, 2022 - This Tiny breadboard has been updated to make plugging and un-plugging boards and headers a buttery-smooth operation. Updated design also includes a metal plate. The metal plate is used to stick the breadboard on for mechanical support, and to keep the paper on the bottom...

These jumper cables are exactly what you need to connect common 0.1" header devices together. Sure you can tape together individual 1x1 header jumpers, but why not do it right? Use with perf-board, breadboards, breakouts, and more. You'll have a solid cable for quickly connecting any 2.54mm / 0.1" boards. Sometimes these connectors are called "Berg" or "Dupont" or...

Making a project that will fit into an "Altoids" Mint Tin? Put down that PCB shear and pick up a Perma-Proto in the new exciting minty shape! Customers have asked us to carry basic perf-board, but we never liked the look of most basic perf: its always crummy quality, with pads that flake off and no labeling. Then we thought about how people actually prototype -...

When working with unusual non-header-friendly surfaces, these handy cables will be your best friends! No longer will you have long, cumbersome strands of alligator clips. These compact jumper cables have a premium female header on one end and a grippy mini alligator clip on the other. Grab onto your Circuit Playground, micro:bit, CRICKIT, Gemma, or even a banana, and...

Handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires are 12" (300mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 40 (4 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" female header contacts on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best part is they come in a 40-pin ribbon cable....

Our Raw F/F Jumper Wires are perfect for making custom jumper wire sets for wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumpers are a little over 6" (150mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 40 (4 pieces of each of the ten colors). The 0.1" spacing raw sockets on either end made to be custom fitted with your choice of housing blocks to meet your...

This little 2x5 (10 pin - 0.1 spaced) IDC Breadboard Helper is great in conjunction with any of our 10-pin IDC cables. It comes in two parts, a 'pin-through' socket and a male header. The socket straddles the center of a breadboard or Perma-Proto and then header plugs into the top of the socket. Since IDC cables are so standard, but a royal pain to use with...

This is a box of six 25ft spools of stranded-core wire. Stranded-core wire is best used for wiring jigs where there's bending or movement expected. It also works well with terminal blocks. It's not great for use with breadboards (without tinning). The wire is easy to solder to, and when bent it keeps its shape pretty well. We like to have a few spools of this stuff...

This cable will let you turn a JST PH 3-pin cable port into 3 individual wires with grippy mini alligator clips. We're carrying these to match up with any of our boards or breakouts with 3-pin 'STEMMA' connectors on them such as the HalloWing or NeoTrellis M4. This cable has a JST PH 3-pin on one side and alligator clips on the other, so it could be used to connect...

Kelvin clips are used whenever you need to get a measurement right at the contact points of a circuit or component. Even though these are grippy clips, each side of the clip is electrically insulated. So you can use it to grab onto a part (as seen above) and perform measurements. These can also be used in circuit if needed. The clip is bare and comes with two jaw...

This is a box of ten 25ft spools of stranded-core wire. Stranded-core wire is best used for wiring jigs where there's bending or movement expected. It also works well with terminal blocks. It's not great for use with breadboards (without tinning). The wire is easy to solder to, and when bent it keeps its shape pretty well. We like to have a few spools of this stuff...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with one 50ft spool of black...

Copper sheet can be an interesting addition to your toolbox. The sheet itself is made of thin pure copper so its extremely flexible and can take on nearly any shape. You can easily solder to it, and the material itself can carry current just like a wire. On the back is an electrically conductive adhesive. The adhesive can't carry significant current but it is very...

Connect to those pesky 0.5mm pitch connectors that you may run across with an FPC stick. We designed this for use in house, to quickly connect to 50pin 0.5mm pitch flex cables we need to test. But we also thought it might be useful for our customers. There's a 50-pin long connector on top, and we have one very long 'mechanical' pad. Since the pad extends along the...

Beguiled by a fancy new chip that is only available in a QFP or QFN pinout? This breakout PCB set will make your life much much easier and get you prototyping faster than ever. One side has a 32-QFP pin out with traces going to two rows of 0.1" spaced holes; the other has 32-QFN. Solder your chip to either side. and you're ready to rock on any solderless breadboard....

This small breadboard comes with 11 x five-port strips. It's like one 'half side' of the Tiny Premium Breadboard, but with fewer rows. Great for making small electronic connections without the need for soldering. Unlike other breadboards that have foam tape or a flat back, it has two nubs that let it plug into the small or large black breadboard base plates.

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with one 50ft spool of red...

Crimping's not just for 80s hair metal bands! When your project requires repeated insertion and removal with minimal strain, why not check out the reliable wire ferrule? A wire ferrule is a tinned sleeve that once crimped, neatly holds all the pesky, individual strands of a stranded wire, giving you consistently stable connections, especially with screw-type terminal...

Beguiled by a fancy new chip that is only available in a SOIC or (T)SSOP pinout? This breakout PCB set will make your life much much easier and get you prototyping faster than ever. One side has a 28-TSSOP pin out with traces going to two rows of 0.1" spaced holes, the other has 28-SOIC. Solder your chip to either side, and you're ready to rock on any solderless...

This 2x8 (16 pin - 0.1" spaced) IDC Breadboard Helper is great in conjunction with any 16-pin IDC cables. It comes in two parts, a 'pin-through' socket and a male header. The socket straddles the center of a breadboard or Perma-Proto and then header plugs into the top of the socket. Since IDC cables are so standard, but a royal pain to use with breadboards, this is a...

These jumper wires come with a twist! Instead of going from 0.1"/2.54mm pitch headers to breadboard or something like that, these are 2.54mm to 2.0mm! Handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering to annoying 2mm-pitch connectors, these premium female-female jumper wires are around 8" (200mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 40. Each pair of wires has 2 pieces of 2.54mm...

These premium extension jumper wires are handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCBs. They're 200mm (~7.8") long and come loose as a pack of 30 (5 pieces of brown, green, orange, white, purple, grey). They have 0.1" socket 'female' header contacts on one end and 0.1" plug 'male' header contacts on the other. These are a great pack to add on...

With most of our dev boards, sensors and feathers now sporting plug-and-play stemma QT ports it can be very fast to put together projects with half a dozen boards snapped together. But that ease of use has one downside: now you don't have a breadboard as a mechanical substrate... which is why we created this nifty swirly grid design to allow for easy mounting of...

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 you prototyping faster than ever. This set comes with 3 different boards which fit 5 different packages and comes with five SOT-23 (fits 2 x SOT-23 on the...

Handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCBs. These premium jumper wires are 12" (300mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 10 (1 piece each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" male header contacts on one end and 0.1" female header contacts on the other. They fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best part is...

Beguiled by a fancy new chip that is only available in a SOIC or (T)SSOP pinout? This breakout PCB set will make your life much much easier and get you prototyping faster than ever. One side has a 20-TSSOP pin out with traces going to two rows of 0.1" spaced holes, the other has 20-SOIC. Solder your chip to either side, and you're ready to rock on any solderless...

Pogo pins are little spring-loaded contacts, very handy for making jigs, or making momentary (but electrically solid) contacts. We use them by the dozen for making programming and testing jigs but they're handy also if say you want to JTAG program a board that you cant solder headers to - just shove these thin contacts into a 0.1" pitch IDC programming cable and...

Handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires are approximately 3" (75mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 40 (4 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" male header contacts on one end and 0.1" female header contacts on the other. They fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header....

These premium extension jumper wires are handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCBs. They're 200mm (~7.8") long and come loose as a pack of 40 (10 pieces of red, blue, yellow, and Adafruit black). They have 0.1" socket 'female' header contacts on one end and 0.1" plug 'male' header contacts on the other. These jumper wires are a little more...

Making a project that will fit into an "Altoids Smalls" Mint Tin? Or maybe you just need a small amount of prototyping space and a larger breadboard size is too big? Put down that PCB shear and pick up a Perma-Proto in the new exciting shape! Customers have asked us to carry basic perf-board, but we never liked the look of most basic perf: it's always crummy quality,...

These jumper cables are exactly what you need to connect common 0.1" header devices together. Sure you can tape together individual 1x1 header jumpers, but why not do it right? Use with perf-board, breadboards, breakouts, and more. You'll have a solid cable for quickly connecting any 2.54mm / 0.1" boards. Sometimes these connectors are called "Berg" or "Dupont" or...

ITO is a clear, conductive liquid/film and here we have it as a coating on a 1mm glass sheet. This is a very interesting and fun material, also used in scientific research and LCD/OLED manufacture! One side of the glass is coated in ITO, you can use the flat of a blade or similar to scrape away some of the film to create 'traces' - just be careful because as it is...

This is a box of ten 25ft spools of solid-core wire. The wire is easy to solder to, and when bent it keeps its shape pretty well. We like to have a few spools of this stuff around which is why this set is quite nice! We suggest picking up some wire strippers to match. Wire gauge is 22 AWG, which we've found is the best all-around gauge, and it works best with...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these HDMI adapters are right up your alley! Making custom HDMI cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our HDMI ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our HDMI adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a straight Mini HDMI plug. Ribbon cable and other adapter not...

If you're looking to make a custom cable with any two of our USB or HDMI adapters, then you'll need to have these flex cables handy! Making custom cables has never been easier. Just grab one of these cables, then swap and switch any of the plug or socket adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This is the 30 cm (~12 inches)...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with one 25ft spool of black...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with one 50ft spool of green...

Pogo pins are little spring-loaded contacts, very handy for making jigs, or making momentary (but electrically solid) contacts. We use them by the dozen for making programming and testing jigs but they're handy also if say you want to JTAG program a board that you cant solder headers to - just shove these thin contacts into a 0.1" pitch IDC programming cable and...

These jumper cables are exactly what you need to connect common 0.1" header devices together. Sure you can tape together individual 1x1 header jumpers, but why not do it right? Use with perf-board, breadboards, breakouts, and more. You'll have a solid cable for quickly connecting any 2.54mm / 0.1" boards. Sometimes these connectors are called "Berg" or "Dupont" or...

These jumper cables are exactly what you need to connect common 0.1" header devices together. Sure you can tape together individual 1x1 header jumpers, but why not do it right? Use with perf-board, breadboards, breakouts, and more. You'll have a solid cable for quickly connecting any 2.54mm / 0.1" boards. Sometimes these connectors are called "Berg" or "Dupont" or...

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 for Pico solves this problem by labeling the Pico pins on the breadboard. This cute 3.2″ × 2.1″ (82 × 53mm) solderless half-size breadboard has four bus lines and 30 rows of pins, our favorite size...

ITO is a clear, conductive liquid/film and here we have it as a coating on a flexible plastic (PET) sheet. This is a very interesting and fun material, also used in scientific research and LCD/OLED manufacture! One side of the plastic is coated in ITO, you can use the flat of a blade or similar to scrape away some of the film to create 'traces'. It may also be...

With our fun assortment of conductive materials, cosplay and wearables have never been easier to craft! This Conductive Nylon tape goes great with our other interesting materials, such as copper tape, ITO glass or plastic, conductive inks, etc. We found that the metallic nylon fabric has some great improvements over plain copper tape. First of all it doesn't crack...

These are the easiest way possible to connect two wires - no if's, and's, or butt's! Well, actually, these are often referred to as wire butts 'cause you 'butt' two wires together (hey we didn't come up with the name!) Butt seriously, folks! OK, so despite the humor, these are really handy. If you want to quickly prototype some wiring, skip the soldering and use...

This one's going out to all the makers and designers who use DIN railing in their builds. This adapter plate is perfect for simplifying complex wiring. It's pretty neat and compatible with a slew of microcontrollers and microcomputers: Raspberry Pi (any modern ones with 4 mounting holes such as the Zero, Pi 4, etc), Adafruit Metro or Arduino Uno, Adafruit Grand...

Pogo pins are little spring-loaded contacts, very handy for making jigs, or making momentary (but electrically solid) contacts. We use them by the dozen for making programming and testing jigs but they're handy also if say you want to JTAG program a board that you can't solder headers to. Most pogo's come as individual pins, that must be soldered into a jig to make...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with 2m of red wire. The wire...

Customers have asked us to carry basic perf-board, but we never liked the look of most basic perf: it's always crummy quality, with pads that flake off and no labeling. Then we thought about how people actually prototype - usually starting with a solderless breadboard and then transferring the parts to a more permanent PCB. That's when we realized what people would...

Are you looking to jumper two neighboring male headers (2.54mm apart) without the hassle of maneuvering and re-maneuvering wires? Well then you've jumped to the right page! This pack of ten (10) 2.54mm jumpers is the perfect solution for quick and compact jumpering. They're super handy to have hanging around your work-space, and perfect for when you're prototyping.

Beguiled by a fancy new chip that is only available in a SOIC or (T)SSOP pinout? This breakout PCB set will make your life much much easier and get you prototyping faster than ever. One side has a 12-TSSOP pin out with traces going to two rows of 0.1" spaced holes; the other has 12-SOIC. Solder your chip to either side, and you're ready to rock on any solderless...

Beguiled by a fancy new chip that is only available in a QFP or QFN pinout? This breakout PCB set will make your life much much easier and get you prototyping faster than ever. One side has a 48-QFP pin out with traces going to two rows of 0.1" spaced holes; the other has 48-QFN (7mm body). Solder your chip to either side, and you're ready to rock on any solderless...

Are you frustrated by the lack of customization options for your jumper wires? Look no further! Compatible with both male and female wires, these fully customizable wire housings bring DIY to a new level, giving you near limitless options when using jumper wires in your project. This is a pack of small, single row housings. We also offer other packs including single...

Make your next project super-flexy with a prototyping board that can twist and bend. We took our lovely classic perma-proto design and had it made from incredibly thin polyamide film. It's extremely bendable, and you can cut it easily with scissors. It has a bend radius of 1cm or better (you can also crease it but that might break a trace if you crease a trace) and...

These jumper cables are exactly what you need to connect common 0.1" header devices together. Sure you can tape together individual 1x1 header jumpers, but why not do it right? Use with perf-board, breadboards, breakouts, and more. You'll have a solid cable for quickly connecting any 2.54mm / 0.1" boards. Sometimes these connectors are called "Berg" or "Dupont" or...

This spool of solid-core wire is easily soldered to and can handle up to 200°C and 600V. We like this wire because it's flexible but also holds its shape. We love the sturdiness and reliability for prototyping and use these all the time in breadboards, perfboards, and in terminal blocks. For wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with...

Are you frustrated by the lack of customization options for your jumper wires? Look no further! Compatible with both male and female wires, these fully customizable wire housings bring DIY to a new level, giving you near limitless options when using jumper wires in your project. This is a pack of small, dual row housings. We also offer other packs including single...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with one 25ft spool of blue...

You will roll lucky 7's and connect to nearly any kind of FPC/flex cable with Ladyada's Super Lucky 40-pin FPC to breadboard adapter plate. You get 40 pads of 0.5mm, 0.6mm, 0.7mm, 0.8mm or 1.0mm. It may even work for some 2.0mm pitch connectors. We designed this for use in house, to quickly connect to FPCs we need to test. But we also thought it might be useful for...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with 2m of black wire. The...

Pick up a super pack of our Perma-Proto PCBs, perfect for professional prototyping projects! This super pack contains 3 each of our 3 sizes - 9 PCBs total. You'll always have the right size for whatever you're working on. Pack contains: Three quarter-sized Perma-Proto PCBs. Three half-sized Perma-Proto PCBs. Three full-sized Perma-Proto PCBs. Nine PCBs total

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these HDMI adapters are right up your alley! Making custom HDMI cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our HDMI ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our HDMI adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a straight HDMI socket. Ribbon cable and other adapter not included!...

This 1.27mm pitch, 2x5 male SMT Box Header is the same one used on our SWD Cable Breakout Board. The header alone is great if you want to incorporate this piece of hardware with your own software. We're specifically selling it so you can solder it onto our nRF52 Feather to add SWD debug/connect capabilities. You could also straighten out the SMT pins to solder into a...

This socket is good for any SOIC/SOP Wide-body 16 pin chip in a 300mil wide body. Simply flip open the latch, insert the chip, and flip down the latch to secure it in place. The chip is held securely against gold 'fingers' (no, stop, Mr. Bond! It's not that Goldfinger!) in the socket. The bottom footprint matches the same SOIC footprint so you can solder this onto an...

These jumper cables are exactly what you need to connect common 0.1" header devices together. Sure you can tape together individual 1x1 header jumpers, but why not do it right? Use with perf-board, breadboards, breakouts, and more. You'll have a solid cable for quickly connecting any 2.54mm / 0.1" boards. Sometimes these connectors are called "Berg" or "Dupont" or...

These five blank pages are designed for keeping taped parts, specifically for 24mm or smaller tape. Each page has 6 rows or slots that you can slide your tape into. The slots are 75mm / 3" long. These pages are meant for our Blank SMT Storage Book. We also carry pages for 8mm tape.

The Pogo Pin Probe Clip is a great way to test and connect with pin-point accuracy without soldering! It's sort of like an alligator clip with a built-in springy pogo pin - so you can connect to any PCB pad for 'scoping, analyzing, or multimetering. The clip is strong enough to grip onto a PCB but has a soft grip so it won't mar or damage circuits. The 'tongue' is a...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with 2m of red wire. The wire...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with 2m of white wire. The...

Polyimide Tape (sometimes referred to by the brand name Kapton Tape) is an interesting addition to your toolbox! Polyimide Tape remains stable across a wide range of temperatures from about −269°C to +400°C. Along with aircraft, spacecraft, and x-rays, polyimide tape is also used in electronic manufacturing and 3D printing. Due to its large range of...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with 2m of white wire. The...

For storing small parts (especially SMT/SMD components), these little modular boxes are ideal. They have individual clear pop-open covers so you can keep only the ones you want open - less risk of mixing up parts or having a spill. The brilliance of these boxes is that they also snap together, in any configuration you want. You can mix all the sizes to make the ideal...

We've got a simple and highly functional solution to wiring your Adafruit Feather board! These 0.1" Pitch Terminal Blocks, are exactly the right size to it your Feather board or FeatherWing. They are great news since nothing makes a project harder to maintain than a lot of loose wiring. Perfect when you don't need a full Terminal Block FeatherWing These terminal...

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 easier to use than wire nuts, and of course, they are reusable and do not require any crimping! And, if your project involves multiple block connectors, check out these Snap Action Connection Buckles to keep all your wiring...

The Pogo Pin Probe Clip with 2x5 0.05" pitch SWD spacing is a great way to test and connect with pin-point accuracy without soldering! It's sort of like an alligator clip with an array of built-in springy pogo pins - so you can connect to a PCB with classic 'SWD' pad holes, without soldering or a special adapter cable. The clip is constructed from PCB sections, with...

Storing your components in old Adafruit shipping boxes is a fine way to keep organized, but our black boxes make it hard to know what's inside! Well now you'll always be organized with this transparent plastic 5-Part Storage Box! We love this simple little box and it's our preferred way of storing larger-than-SMT-but-smaller-than-Arduino components. Stack'em on top...

Finally, the conductive material you've known you wanted but never knew you could have, its a sheet of flex PCB material! This is the stuff used to make flexible circuits, but raw and unetched. You can treat it just like 1 oz copper clad, etch it with ferric chloride (or other PCB etching systems) or cut with scissors. It may even be possible to laser or CNC engrave...

Handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires are 12" (300mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 40 (4 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" male header contacts on one end and 0.1" female header contacts on the other. They fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with one 50ft spool of white...

For those who are fans of our silicone-covered wires, but are always looking to up their wiring game. We now have Silicone Cover Ribbon cables! These may look a lot like squid ink noodles, but they're not. The silicone-sheathed wire is super-flexible and soft, and it's also strong! Able to handle up to 200°C and up to 600V, it will do when PVC covered wire wimps...

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 fabrication, but the wire is still really handy for prototyping work. It's extremely thin (30 AWG!), so your wiring won't get bulky, and it is just stiff...

The "poor woman's" Raspberry Pi A+ / B+ / Pi 2 cobbler! This combo of 2x20 pin (0.1 spaced) header and socket is for our popular GPIO Ribbon Cable for Raspberry Pi Model A+/B+/Pi 2 (40 pins). It comes in two parts, a 'pin-through' socket and a male header. The socket straddles the center of a breadboard or Perma-Proto and then header plugs into the top of the socket....

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these HDMI adapters are right up your alley! Making custom HDMI cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our HDMI ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our HDMI adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a right angle (right bend) Mini HDMI plug. Ribbon cable and other...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with one 50ft spool of yellow...

This spool of solid-core wire is easily soldered to and can handle up to 200°C and 600V. We like this wire because it's flexible but also holds its shape. We love the sturdiness and reliability for prototyping and use these all the time in breadboards, perfboards, and in terminal blocks. For wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with 2m of green wire. The...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with one 25ft spool of red...

Nothing is going to be as thin and flexible as this wire - it feels a little like waxed thread but can carry current! You could use this in wearables or very fine assemblies where weight and bulk is at a premium. Silicone wires are flexible but aren't as thin. Wire-wrapping wire is thin but isn't flexible. The covering for the wire is Teflon so its good from -80 to...

Beguiled by a fancy new chip that is only available in a QFP or QFN pinout? This breakout PCB set will make your life much much easier and get you prototyping faster than ever. One side has a 44-QFP pin out with traces going to two rows of 0.1" spaced holes; the other has 44-QFN. Solder your chip to either side. and you're ready to rock on any solderless breadboard....

This small breadboard comes with 5 x five-port strips. It's like one 'half side' of a Tiny Premium Breadboard, but with fewer rows. Great for making small electronic connections without the need for soldering. Unlike other breadboards that have foam tape or a flat back, it has two nubs that let it plug into the small or large black breadboard base plates.

Connect this to that without soldering using these quick terminal blocks. They allow connecting of two sets of four wires together using just a flat-head screwdriver. These are UL rated to carry up to 15 Amps, so they're great for high current LED strips! Can be used with wires from 14AWG to 22 AWG

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with 2m of blue wire. The wire...

They look a lot like sushi rice, but don't eat 'em - these are Low Temperature Thermoplastic Beads! Also known as "Friendly Plastic", "Instamorph", "Polymorph" and many other names These 100g bags are full of ivory-colored polymorph plastic beads with a low melting point of about 60°C (140°F). Heat up some water with a kettle or microwave, then dump the beads...

Our Raw Male/Male Jumper Wires are perfect for making a custom jumper wire sets for wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumpers are a little over 6" (150mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 40 (4 pieces of each of the ten colors). The 0.1" raw sockets on either end are designed to be custom fitted with your choice of housing blocks to...

Always have the right SMT components at your hand with this awesome 0805 Resistor and Capacitor book set! This book has nice translucent pages filled with cut tape SMT 0805 components, sorted, labeled and ready to go. This book has 63 5% resistor values, 3025 parts and 17 capacitor values, 700 parts. The nice thing is that you get a good distribution of the...

Handy for making wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCB's. These premium jumper wires are 12" (300mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 40 (4 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" male header contacts on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best part is they come in a 40-pin ribbon cable....

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with one 25ft spool of green...

Have you ever peeled the back of a solderless breakout board off and gazed at those smooth metal strips that are lodged into the plastic? Maybe you want to repair a loved breadboard, or maybe you want to DIY your own breadboard-like technology. This material is basically the innards of one of our 'premium solderless breadboards'. The contacts have a little divot at...

These five blank pages are designed for keeping taped parts, specifically for 8mm tape (the most common size of tape by far). Each page has 12 rows or slots that you can slide your tape into. The slots are 3.5" long. These pages are meant for our Blank SMT Storage Book. We also carry pages for 24mm tape (or smaller).

Are you frustrated by the lack of customization options for your jumper wires? Look no further! Compatible with both male and female wires, these fully customizable wire housings bring DIY to a new level, giving you near limitless options when using jumper wires in your project. This is a pack of large, single row housings. We also offer other packs including single...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with 2m of yellow wire. The...

This SOIC Test Clip is a great way to test and connect to Flash memory, EEPROMs or other 8-SOIC chips, with pinpoint accuracy and NO soldering! It's sort of like an alligator clip but with 8 metal teeth that grip nicely onto normal or wide SOICs. So handy for when you need to probe an I2C, SPI or QSPI connection - or burn firmware to a chip without desoldering. The...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with one 50ft spool of blue...

Copper tape can be an interesting addition to your toolbox. The tape itself is made of thin pure copper so its extremely flexible and can take on nearly any shape. You can easily solder to it, and the tape itself can carry current just like a wire. On the back is an electrically conductive adhesive. The adhesive can't carry significant current but it is very handy...

Add a micro-slice standard solderless breadboard to your Perma-Proto or other perf-board. This 4x4 point solder-less breadboard is a good way to add some solderless prototyping space if you just need to have a couple of points. Comes with one 18mm x 13mm x 10mm piece of solder-less breadboard. There are four white posts on the bottom for PCB positioning, but you can...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these HDMI adapters are right up your alley! Making custom HDMI cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our HDMI ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our HDMI adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a straight Micro HDMI socket. Ribbon cable and other adapter not...

We looked long and hard for a high-quality, sturdy, durable-latching parts box and we have it! This handy box has outer dimensions of 6.25" x 3.5" (159mm x 89mm) - 4.1" including hinges (104mm), long compartments are 3.35" x 1.15" (85 x 29mm) and for short compartments are 1.65" x 1.15" (42 x 29mm). Perfect for small parts and more! We tested dozens of other latching...

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? These "mini loop type" Small PCB Test Points easily snap in to your project, and they're ideal for ultra-low profile surface-mount testing! They will attach to J hooks,...

You'll find these handy 2-pin 0.1" spacing pig-tails to be quite helpful when wiring up your project. The connector end snaps cleanly into 0.1" spaced header (and fits neatly side by side on 0.1" spacing as well). We think this would be especially useful when paired with our PWM driver breakout, to control 16 PWM LEDs that are wired, but there are probably a dozen...

Add a micro-slice standard solderless breadboard to your Perma-Proto or other perf-board. This 2x4 point solder-less breadboard is a good way to add some solderless prototyping space if you just need to have a couple of points. In our example photo, we put a chip and some jumper wires in the breadboard, but you can use anything with 0.1" spaced header. Comes with one...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with 2m of blue wire. The wire...

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 expected. Works well with terminal blocks as well. It's not great for use with breadboards (without tinning) For prototyping with breadboards, perfboards, and terminal blocks check out our solid-core wires. Comes with one 25ft...

Are you frustrated by the lack of customization options for your jumper wires? Look no further! Compatible with both male and female wires, these fully customizable wire housings bring DIY to a new level, giving you near limitless options when using jumper wires in your project. This is a pack of large, dual row housings. We also offer other packs including single...

Nothing is going to be as thin and flexible as this wire - it feels a little like waxed thread but can carry current! You could use this in wearables or very fine assemblies where weight and bulk is at a premium. Silicone wires are flexible but aren't as thin. Wire-wrapping wire is thin but isn't flexible. The covering for the wire is Teflon so its good from -80 to...

Add a micro-slice standard solderless breadboard to your Perma-Proto or other perf-board. This 2x8 point solder-less breadboard is a good way to add some solderless prototyping space if you just need to have a couple of points. In our example photo, we put a Trinket in the breadboard, but you can use anything with 0.1" spaced header. Comes with one 29mm x 8mm x 8mm...

Connect to 0.5mm, 1.0mm and even some 2.0mm pitch connectors that you may run across with an FPC stick. We designed this for use in house, to quickly connect to FPCs we need to test. But we also thought it might be useful for our customers. On either side is a 20 pin 0.5 or 1.0mm pitch connector with long pads and one very long 'mechanical' pad. Each pad is broken...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with 2m of green wire. The...

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 expected. Works well with terminal blocks as well. It's not great for use with breadboards (without tinning) For prototyping with breadboards, perfboards, and terminal blocks check out our solid-core wires. Comes with one 25ft...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with one 25ft spool of white...

Perfect for bread-boarding, free wiring, etc. This spool of solid-core wire is easy to solder to. When bent it keeps its shape pretty well. We like to have a few spools of this stuff around. We suggest picking up wire strippers to match. Wire gauge is 22 AWG which we've found is the best all-around gauge, it works best with breadboards and perfboards but also fits in...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these HDMI adapters are right up your alley! Making custom HDMI cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our HDMI ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our HDMI adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a straight Micro HDMI plug. Ribbon cable and other adapter not...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with 2m of grey wire. The wire...

This spool of solid-core wire is easily soldered to and can handle up to 200°C and 600V. We like this wire because it's flexible but also holds its shape. We love the sturdiness and reliability for prototyping and use these all the time in breadboards, perfboards, and in terminal blocks. For wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with...

For storing small parts (especially SMT/SMD components), these little modular boxes are ideal. They have individual clear pop-open covers so you can keep only the ones you want open - less risk of mixing up parts or having a spill. The brilliance of these boxes is that they also snap together, in any configuration you want. You can mix all the sizes to make the ideal...

Always have the right SMT components at your hand with this awesome 0603 Resistor and Capacitor book set! This book has nice translucent pages filled with cut tape 0603 SMT components, sorted, labeled and ready to go. This book has 63 5% resistor values, 3025 parts and 17 capacitor values, 700 parts. The nice thing is that you get a good distribution of the...

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? These "mini loop type" Small PCB Test Points easily snap in to your project, and they're ideal for ultra-low profile surface-mount testing! They will attach to J hooks,...

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 socket is good for any SOIC/SOP "Narrow" chip in a 150mil wide body that has 16 pins or fewer. Simply press down on the top, place the chip in...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these HDMI adapters are right up your alley! Making custom HDMI cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our HDMI ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our HDMI adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a right angle (left bend) Mini HDMI plug. Ribbon cable and other...

For those who are fans of our silicone-covered wires but are always looking to up their wiring game. We now have Silicone Cover Ribbon cables! These may look a lot like squid ink noodles, but they're not. The silicone-sheathed wire is super-flexible and soft, and it's also strong! Able to handle up to 200°C and up to 600V, it will do when PVC covered wire wimps...

Pogo pins are little spring-loaded contacts, very handy for making jigs, or making momentary (but electrically solid) contacts. We use them by the dozen for making programming and testing jigs but they're handy also if say you want to JTAG program a board that you cant solder headers to - just shove these thin contacts into a 0.1" pitch IDC programming cable and...

For those who are fans of our silicone-covered wires, but are always looking to up their wiring game. We now have Silicone Cover Ribbon cables! These may look a lot like squid ink noodles, but they're not. The silicone-sheathed wire is super-flexible and soft, and it's also strong! Able to handle up to 200°C and up to 600V, it will do when PVC covered wire wimps...

This cable will let you turn a JST PH 4-pin cable port into 4 individual wires with grippy mini alligator clips. We're carrying these to match up with any of our boards or breakouts with 'STEMMA' connectors on them such as the HalloWing or NeoTrellis M4. Can also be used with any STEMMA breakouts! This cable has a JST PH 4-pin on one side and alligator clips on the...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these HDMI adapters are right up your alley! Making custom HDMI cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our HDMI ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our HDMI adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a straight Mini HDMI socket. Ribbon cable and other adapter not...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with 2m of orange wire. The...

These jumper cables are exactly what you need to connect common 0.1" header devices together. Sure you can tape together individual 1x1 header jumpers, but why not do it right? Use with perf-board, breadboards, breakouts, and more. You'll have a solid cable for quickly connecting any 2.54mm / 0.1" boards. Sometimes these connectors are called "Berg" or "Dupont" or...

Make your next project super-flexy with a biiiig prototyping board that can twist and shout– err, twist and bend! This passive flexible proto-PCB is about large as a piece of paper, but instead of dead trees it's made of very thin FR4. We're not bending the truth! This protoboard is only 0.4mm thick, so it's extremely bendable and you can cut it easily with...

Nothing is going to be as thin and flexible as this wire - it feels a little like waxed thread but can carry current! You could use this in wearables or very fine assemblies where weight and bulk is at a premium. Silicone wires are flexible but aren't as thin. Wire-wrapping wire is thin but isn't flexible. The covering for the wire is Teflon so it's good from -80 to...

For those who are fans of our silicone-covered wires but are always looking to up their wiring game. We now have Silicone Cover Ribbon cables! These may look a lot like squid ink noodles, but they're not. The silicone-sheathed wire is super-flexible and soft, and it's also strong! Able to handle up to 200°C and up to 600V, it will do when PVC covered wire wimps...

For those who are fans of our silicone-covered wires but are always looking to up their wiring game. We now have Silicone Cover Ribbon cables! These may look a lot like squid ink noodles, but they're not. The silicone-sheathed wire is super-flexible and soft, and it's also strong! Able to handle up to 200°C and up to 600V, it will do when PVC covered wire wimps...

This one's going out to all the makers and designers who use DIN railing in their builds. This adapter plate is perfect for simplifying complex wiring. You connect a 2x20 IDC cable to this very PCB, which can be DIN rail-mounted. Then, all 40 pins are broken out into terminal blocks, so you can connect and power your sensors, displays, microcontrollers, etc. No...

This accessory for the Bus Pirate 5 makes it trivial to program bare flash memory chips without clips or soldering. SOP8 150mil and 208mil are the most common and inexpensive flash packages at the moment. After looking at a number of sockets, the folks behind the Bus Pirate 5 decided these bad boys, favorites of the mobile phone repair market, were the way to go....

For storing small parts (especially SMT/SMD components), this heavy-duty Large AideTek Box-All ESD-Safe Modular Box is ideal. It has 144 individual clear pop-open covers, so you can keep only the ones you want open - less risk of mixing up parts or having a tragic spill. Each wee compartment measures 0.72" (H) x 0.657" (W) x 0.4"(D) or 18.3mm (H) x 16.7mm (W) x...

For those who are fans of our silicone-covered wires but are always looking to up their wiring game. We now have Silicone Cover Ribbon cables! These may look a lot like squid ink noodles, but they're not. The silicone-sheathed wire is super-flexible and soft, and it's also strong! Able to handle up to 200°C and up to 600V, it will do when PVC covered wire wimps...

This one going out to all the makers and designers who use DIN railing in their builds. This adapter plate was recommended by a customer, its perfect for simplifying complex wiring. You connect an RJ45 cable (a.k.a Ethernet) to this very PCB which can be DIN rail-mounted. Then, all 8 wires are broken out into terminal blocks, so you can connect and power your...

This accessory makes wiring up sensors to your Bus Pirate 5 "a snap", with snap-open quick connects that plug into the BP5s header port. Sometimes you just need to connect some wires and dig into a project. Quick connector boards get you working right away. KF141 is a popular quick connector block with sturdy spring retention clamps. Press the lever, insert a...

If you pick up either of our 11x5 or 5x5 point mini solderless breadboard, you may notice they have little bumps on the bottom. Those nubs can snap onto these brick-like baseplates. That makes for fun and reconfigurable arrangements that can be interspersed with other mechanical components. Note that while these plates look similar to 'LEGO-compatible' brick plates,...

Experiment with paper electronics with this silver conductive ink pen that will let you draw traces! We like the make of this pen, it has a nice liquid silver ink that flows easily, and it works great. In just 3 minutes from opening the packaging, we made the image above, a coin cell holder with an LED. There are two 'tips' available - standard and micro. The...

These two SMT Socket Headers alone are, well, lonely. But pair them with any of our Feather boards and you're in business! These headers are particularly cute and slim and are designed to match with FeatherWings. It's harder to solder than thru-hole type headers, but for reflow-friendly builds these headers are recommended! We use these on all types of 'Wings, from...

This one's going out to all the makers and designers who use DIN railing in their builds. This adapter plate is perfect for simplifying complex wiring. There are 10 spring-terminal blocks on either side of the PCB, and they are connected straight through. Use stranded or solid-core wires, they can be signal or power wires. And of course, you can fit a few wires per...

If you pick up either of our 11x5 or 5x5 point mini solderless breadboards you may notice they have little bumps on the bottom. Those nubs can snap onto these brick-like baseplates. That makes for fun and reconfigurable arrangements that can be interspersed with other mechanical components. Note that while these plates look similar to 'LEGO-compatible' brick plates,...

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 wire wimps out. We like this wire for being extremely supple and flexible, so it is great for wearables or projects where the wire-harness has to be able to deal with a lot of bending. Comes with one 25ft spool of orange...

For those who are fans of our silicone-covered wires, but are always looking to up their wiring game. We now have Silicone Cover Ribbon cables! These may look a lot like squid ink noodles, but they're not. The silicone-sheathed wire is super-flexible and soft, and it's also strong! Able to handle up to 200°C and up to 600V, it will do when PVC covered wire wimps...

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 is good for any wide (300 mil) SOIC/SOP with up to 28 pins. Simply open the latch, place the chip in carefully and then close the top over it. The chip...

Extend and expand your Circuit Playground projects with a bolt-on Perma-Proto that lets you connect solderable circuits in a sturdy and reliable fashion. This PCB looks just like a solderless breadboard but has permanently affixed M3 standoffs that act as mechanical and electrical connections. Solder to the gold-plated traces to create your custom invention! Each pad...

These jumper cables are exactly what you need to connect common 0.1" header devices together. Sure you can tape together individual 1x1 header jumpers, but why not do it right? Use with perf-board, breadboards, breakouts, and more. You'll have a solid cable for quickly connecting any 2.54mm / 0.1" boards. Sometimes these connectors are called "Berg" or "Dupont" or...

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 good for any 4.4mm / 0.147" wide TSSOP/SSOP with up to 28 pins. Simply press down on the top, place the chip in carefully and then release to latch the...

These jumper cables are exactly what you need to connect common 0.1" header devices together. Sure you can tape together individual 1x1 header jumpers, but why not do it right? Use with perf-board, breadboards, breakouts, and more. You'll have a solid cable for quickly connecting any 2.54mm / 0.1" boards. Sometimes these connectors are called "Berg" or "Dupont" or...

Perfect for bread-boarding, free wiring, etc. This box contains 6 spools of solid-core wire. The wire is easy to solder to and when bent it keeps its shape pretty well. We like to have a few spools of this stuff around which is why this set is quite nice! We suggest picking up wire strippers to match. Wire gauge is 22 AWG which we've found is the best all-around...

We put a PermaProto half-sized proto board in a blender with a Pi Cobbler and out emerged this very tasty confection - the 40-Pin PermaProto for Pi! It has the Cobbler baked right in. Simply solder the 2x20 box header in, and you get all the labeled breakouts with extra prototyping space, power rails, mounting holes and that gorgeous silk. This version is for modern...

These jumper cables are exactly what you need to connect common 0.1" header devices together. Sure you can tape together individual 1x1 header jumpers, but why not do it right? Use with perf-board, breadboards, breakouts, and more. You'll have a solid cable for quickly connecting any 2.54mm / 0.1" boards. Sometimes these connectors are called "Berg" or "Dupont" or...

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 40 (4 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" male header contacts on either end and fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best part is they come in a 40-pin ribbon cable. You...

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 40 (4 pieces of each of ten rainbow colors). They have 0.1" male header contacts on one end and 0.1" female header contacts on the other. They fit cleanly next to each other on standard-pitch 0.1" (2.54mm) header. The best...

These are like the fancy electronics equivalent of the wire nuts electricians use to bind wires together. They are a lot easier to use as well! Each block connector has a metal block inside and three levers that snap open and close to bind stranded/solid-core wire. No screwdrivers required! They're super handy for free wiring and can handle up to 20A at 300V with UL...

Customers have asked us to carry basic perf-board, but we never liked the look of most basic perf: it's always crummy quality, with pads that flake off and no labeling. Then we thought about how people actually prototype - usually starting with a solderless breadboard and then transferring the parts to a more permanent PCB. That's when we realized what people would...

With most of our dev boards, sensors and feathers now sporting plug-and-play stemma QT ports it can be very fast to put together projects with half a dozen boards snapped together. But that ease of use has one downside: now you don't have a breadboard as a mechanical substrate... which is why we created this nifty swirly grid design to allow for easy mounting of...

Copper tape can be an interesting addition to your toolbox. The tape itself is made of thin pure copper so its extremely flexible and can take on nearly any shape. You can easily solder to it, and the tape itself can carry current just like a wire. On the back is an electrically conductive adhesive. The adhesive can't carry significant current but it is very handy...

For storing small parts (especially SMT/SMD components), these little modular boxes are ideal. They have individual clear pop-open covers so you can keep only the ones you want open - less risk of mixing up parts or having a spill. The brilliance of these boxes is that they also snap together, in any configuration you want. You can mix all the sizes to make the ideal...

This is a cute half-size breadboard with an assortment of small jumper wires, great for prototyping. The breadboard is 2.2" x 3.4" (5.5 cm x 8.5 cm) with a standard double-strip in the middle and two power rails on both sides. Power rails can be pulled off easily to make the breadboard as thin as 1.4" (3.5cm). The jumper wires are pre-cut and bent in right angles at...

Our Raw Male/Female Jumper Wires are perfect for making a custom jumper wire sets for wire harnesses or jumpering between headers on PCBs. These premium jumpers are a little over 6", almost 8" (about 200mm) long and come in a 'strip' of 40 (5 pieces of the ten rainbow colors). The 0.75" raw sockets on either end are designed to be custom fitted with your choice of...

For those who are fans of our silicone-covered wires, but are always looking to up their wiring game. We now have Silicone Cover Ribbon cables! These may look a lot like squid ink noodles, but they're not. The silicone-sheathed wire is super-flexible and soft, and it's also strong! Able to handle up to 200°C and up to 600V, it will do when PVC covered wire wimps...

Copper tape can be an interesting addition to your toolbox. The tape itself is made of thin pure copper so it's extremely flexible and can take on nearly any shape. You can solder to it, and the tape itself can carry current just like a wire. On the back is an electrically conductive adhesive. The adhesive can't carry significant current, but it is very handy for...

These are like the fancy electronics equivalent of the wire nuts electricians use to bind wires together. They are a lot easier to use as well! Each block connector has a metal block inside and five levers that snap open and close to bind stranded/solid-core wire. No screwdrivers required! They're super handy for free wiring and can handle up to 32A at 450V with UL...

With most of our dev boards, sensors and feathers now sporting plug-and-play stemma QT ports it can be very fast to put together projects with half a dozen boards snapped together. But that ease of use has one downside: now you don't have a breadboard as a mechanical substrate... which is why we created this nifty swirly grid design to allow for easy mounting of...

Pogo pins are little spring-loaded contacts, very handy for making jigs, or making momentary (but electrically solid) contacts. We use them by the dozen for making programming and testing jigs but they're handy also if say you want to JTAG program a board that you cant solder headers to - just shove these thin contacts into a 0.1" pitch IDC programming cable and...

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 fabrication but the wire is still really handy for prototyping work. It's extremely thin (30 AWG!) so your wiring wont get bulky, and it is just stiff...