Coming soon! Sign up to be notified when these are in stock. We can’t wait for spring to arrive, and we’re looking forward to caring for some plants! We designed this little add-on for micro:bit or CLUE boards – bolt it on with 5 screws to get a buzzer/beeper, motor driver, and breakouts for connecting a soil sensor (two alligator clips + nails work just fine). Simple, but effective! 8mm Buzzer/Speaker on pin P0 - have...

The RockBLOCK 9603 allows you to send and receive short messages from anywhere on Earth with a clear view of the sky. And when we say anywhere we mean anywhere . It works far beyond the reach of WiFi and GSM networks. Maybe you want to transmit weather information from mid-ocean? Or use it to control your robot in the middle of the desert? Perhaps you need emergency communications when other networks might not be available? RockBLOCK can...

The RockBLOCK 9603 Accessory Cable is terminated with a simple 10-pin Molex-style connector at one end and male jumper wires at the other. This accessory cable will help speed up your development time, meaning you no longer need to terminate and crimp your own connector for the RockBLOCK 9603. If you're going to connect the RockBLOCK 9603 to anything other than your computer's USB port, you are going to need this cable. Once attached to...

The SparkFun Qwiic Adapter can make any old I2C board or sensor a STEMMA QT / Qwiic-enabled one. This adapter breaks out the I2C pins from the JST SH connectors to pins that you can easily solder with your favorite I2C-enabled device. The Qwiic Adapter has two JST SH connection ports, all on the same I2C bus. Four plated through holes are broken out for SCL, SDA, 3.3V and GND. Simple? Yes, and very effective!   Features: 2 x JST SH (Qwiic /...

Are you a maker in the midst of a STEMMA dilemma? This 100mm long cable is a fantastic chimera-cable fitted with STEMMA QT / Sparkfun Qwiic JST SH on one end, and a Grove  connector on the other.  This cable can be used with STEMMA or STEMMA QT / Qwiic boards to easily connect sensors and drivers from one board to the other. Please note you will have to watch for voltages on the power/signal pin when using 3V-only...

Deep learning networks are getting smaller. Much smaller. The Google Assistant team can detect words with a model just 14 kilobytes in size—small enough to run on a microcontroller. With this practical book, you’ll enter the field of TinyML, where deep learning and embedded systems combine to make astounding things possible with tiny devices. Pete Warden and Daniel Situnayake explain how you can train models small enough to fit into...

If you'd like a compact color display, with buttons and a joystick - we've got what you're looking for. The Adafruit 1.3" Color TFT Bonnet for Raspberry Pi is the big sister to our mini PiTFT add-ons. This bonnet has 240x240 color pixels in an IPS TFT display controlled over SPI. This display is super small, only about 1.3" diagonal, but since it is an IPS display, it's very readable with high contrast and...

Build your own home-brew iPod with Pimoroni' s Pirate Audio Headphone Amp ! It's an all-in-one solution, with gorgeous album art display, track info, and playback controls, for playing your local audio files (MP3, FLAC, etc) or streaming music from Spotify. The DAC and headphone amp give you crisp digital amplified audio through your wired headphones. Pirate Audio is a range of all-in-one audio boards for...

Wouldn't it be cool to drive a tiny OLED display, read a color sensor, or even just flash some LEDs directly from your computer?  Sure you can program an Arduino or Trinket to talk to these devices and your computer, but why can't your computer just talk to those devices and sensors itself?  Well, now your computer can talk to devices using the Adafruit FT232H breakout board! What can the FT232H chip do?...

Wow did you hear about that new sequel coming out? No, no, not  The Matrix 4 – it's The Art of Electronics - X Chapters ! More delicious, practical electronic advice from the masters, Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill.  The Art of Electronics: The X Chapters expands on topics introduced in the best-selling third edition of The Art of Electronics , completing the broad discussions begun in the latter. In addition to covering...

The SparkFun Qwiic FeatherWing (Shield for Thing Plus ) provides an easy-to-assemble way to add the STEMMA QT / Qwiic connect ecosystem to any development board with Feather/Thing Plus Footprint. It connects the I2C bus (GND, 3.3V, SDA, and SCL) on your Feather to four SparkFun Qwiic / Stemma QT connectors. The plug-n-play ecosystem allows for easy daisy chaining so, as long as your devices are on different addresses, you can connect as...

This is a screen for advanced hackers who like the look of the TFT screen we've put into the Adafruit CLUE and Adafruit Mini PiTFT 1.3". The 1.3" display has 240x240 16-bit full-color pixels and is an  IPS  display, so the color looks great up to 80 degrees off-axis in any direction. The TFT driver (ST7789) is very similar to the popular ST7735, and our Arduino library supports it well. This is just the display module! No...

Only 13mm long,  Fomu  really puts the  micro  in microprocessor. Fomu is a fully open-source, programmable FPGA device that sits inside a USB Type-A port. It has four buttons, an RGB LED, and an FPGA that is compatible with a fully open source chain and capable of running a RISC-V core. Fomu comes in a custom plastic enclosure that slots perfectly into a USB port. Fomu: has Python With 128 kilobytes of RAM and a large...

Just about all electronics use a UART serial port with RX and TX pins for debugging, bootloading, programming, serial output, etc. But it's rare for a computer to have a serial port anymore. Thus, a serial cable is an essential part of any electrical engineer's toolkit. This is a USB C to TTL serial cable with an FTDI FT232R  usb/serial chip embedded in the head. It has a 6-pin socket at the end with 5V power and ground, and...

It's hip to be square with the Pimoroni's  HyperPixel 4.0 Square Display with Capacitive Touch for Raspberry Pi computers . This display has all the great features of their standard HyperPixel 4.0—a crisp, brilliant IPS display, capacitive touchscreen , and high-speed DPI interface—it's just more  square ! This square version of HyperPixel 4.0 is great for custom interfaces and control panels, and works...

It's hip to be square with the Pimoroni's HyperPixel 4.0 Square Display for Raspberry Pi computers . This display has all the great features of their standard HyperPixel 4.0—a crisp, brilliant IPS display and high-speed DPI interface—it's just more square ! This square version of HyperPixel 4.0 is great for custom interfaces and control panels, and works really well for Pico-8 games. Everything is pre-soldered and...

The Adafruit Feather Bluefruit Sense takes our popular Feather nRF52840 Express and adds a smorgasbord of sensors to make a great wireless sensor platform. This Feather microcontroller comes with Bluetooth Low Energy and native USB support featuring the nRF52840!  This Feather is an 'all-in-one' Arduino-compatible + Bluetooth Low Energy with built in USB plus battery charging. With native USB it works great with CircuitPython, too....

This tiny PCB connects to your PC, Mac, or Linux machine via a standard USB micro B cable, and appears as a USB games controller (HID interface). Then it's just a matter of adding some blingy arcade buttons and a joystick as input. Great for making custom user interfaces, arcade setups, or interfacing with basic button-like sensors. Your buttons and joystick plug into Player X with male DuPont connectors (jumper...

Monitor your world with Pimoroni's Enviro PHAT for Raspberry Pi! There are a whole bunch of fancy environmental sensors on these boards, and a gorgeous little full-color LCD to display your data. It's the perfect way to get started with citizen science and environmental monitoring - with a great UI and easy-to-use Python code Enviro  is designed for indoor monitoring, letting you measure temperature, pressure, humidity,...

This wiring loom from Pimoroni has all the cables and connectors you'll need to connect a joystick, arcade buttons, and illuminated button to Picade X HAT. It's ideal for DIY arcade cabinet builds and retro gaming. The loom consists of four separate sets of wires (26AWG), all 35cm long : 5-pin female connector to 5-pin male Dupont connector 12 x spade connectors (2.8mm) to 6x 2-pin male Dupont...

Power-up your TV with a Pimoroni Picade Console Controller ! It's a compact, Raspberry Pi-powered retro games machine with authentic arcade controls that plugs right into your TV, monitor, or other HDMI display. It's a stylish, retro, and fun arcade controller for your Raspberry Pi! Picade Console is fight stick-style arcade console that riffs off the Pimoroni Picade with the same retro feel, same joystick and buttons, dedicated power...

Run two solenoids, or a single DC motor with up to 800mA per channel using the super-simple L9110H H-bridge driver. This bridge chip is an 8 DIP package so it's easy to fit onto any breadboard or perfboard. Each chip contains one full H-bridges (two half H-bridges). That means you can drive 2 solenoids or a single DC motors bi-directionally. Just make sure they're good for under 800 mA since that's the limit of this chip. They do...

This simple but effective enclosure will fit any 'classic Arduino' shaped development board - we've tested it with the Arduino UNO R3, Adafruit Metro, and Adafruit Metro M4 Express. We rather like this case because it's low-profile enough that you can fit shields on top. There's even a flexi-nub for pressing the reset button! Best of all, it's LEGO brick compatible! So easy, we think this will enable many...

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 are a little more expensive than most...

This is the alpha release of the hardware, everything works, but we may change around the sensors or pinouts as we add projects and support for the CLUE! We've also set the price at an introductory $29.95 during the ALPHA, the price will be $39.95 after the alpha is over. Note: Only 1 board per order. The ALPHA CLUE board you receive may be either black or green. We don't know in advance which one you'll get! Do you feel like...

For the easiest way possible to measure twists, turn to this STEMMA potentiometer breakout (ha!). This plug-n-play pot comes with a JST-PH 2mm connector and a matching  JST PH 3-Pin to Male Header Cables - 200mm, so wiring up is a cinch. Simply plug the cable in, then use the black wire to connect to your ground, white wire to the input/signal pin and the red wire to your power pin. The power pin voltage should match the voltage max of your...

Looking for another way to keep your project  cool? Hook up this  5V Mini Cooling Fan  and prevent from overheating! Of course, it's also great for use with any small computer or FPGA or motor driver or anything that needs cooling.  We also carry a mini 5V cooling fan with regular JST 2-pin connectors. This fan is nearly identical - it has the same fan body, but the cable has a handy "Molex PicoBlade"...

MikroElektronika's Feather Click Shield  will expand your Feather projects to "fly" with more than 750 Click boards available from MikroE. This coterie of Click boards gives you a versatile selection of peripheral devices that can be taken off the shelf and used for prototyping in no time. The shield is designed with two proprietary mikroBUS sockets, allowing all the Click board devices to be interfaced with the...

This  Blue Octagon Chassis  makes for an excellent robot body that's easy to machine and modify. It's a single piece of 4mm thick plastic, with a variety of holes, slots and cutouts for mounting boards, sensors, and servos. The sides are notched to fit two DC Gear 'TT' motors - you'll want to get four M3 or 4-40 screws about 24mm/1.0" long to mount the motors. At either end you can screw on...

As technology changes and adapts, so does Adafruit. This   USB Type A to Type C cable will help you with the transition to USB C, even if you're still totin' around a USB Type A hub, computer or laptop. USB C is the latest industry-standard connector for transmitting data  and  power. Like Lightning and MagSafe cables, USB C has no up or down orientation. And who among us has inserted USB correctly the first time?...

As technology changes and adapts, so does Adafruit. This   USB Type A to Type C cable will help you with the transition to USB C, even if you're still totin' around a USB Type A hub, computer or laptop. USB C is the latest industry-standard connector for transmitting data  and  power. Like Lightning and MagSafe cables, USB C has no up or down orientation. And who among us has inserted USB correctly the first time?...

As technology changes and adapts, so does Adafruit. This   USB Type A to Type C cable will help you with the transition to USB C, even if you're still totin' around a USB Type A hub, computer or laptop. USB C is the latest industry-standard connector for transmitting data and power. Like Lightning and MagSafe cables, USB C has no up or down orientation. And who among us has inserted USB correctly the first time? Works great...

If you missed out on ADABOX 014, its not too late for you to pick up the parts necessary to build many of the projects! This kit pack doesn't come with tissue paper or the nifty extras, but it does have all the electronic goodies you need This project pack features the  Circuit Playground Bluefruit  with Bluetooth LE support so now we can make our projects wireless! We've also included a colorful 'TFT Gizmo' graphical...

Behold, the ST ISM330DHCX: an industrial quality Accelerometer+Gyroscope 6-DOF IMUs (inertial measurement unit) from ST. This IMU sensor has 6 degrees of freedom - 3 degrees each of linear acceleration and angular velocity at varying rates within a respectable range. For the accelerometer: ±2/±4/±8/±16 g at 1.6 Hz to 6.7KHz update rate. For the gyroscope:...

Make your own smart LED arrangement with the same integrated LED that is used in our NeoPixel strip and pixels. This tiny 1515 (1.5mm x 1.5mm) RGB LED is designed to be surface-mount soldered and is the most compact way possible to integrate multiple bright LEDs to a design. The driver chip is inside the LED and has ~18mA constant current drive so the color will be very consistent even if the voltage varies, and no external choke resistors are...

HackSpace Magazine is the monthly magazine for the modern maker!  Issue #25 highlights the best toys, tools, and trinkets for your hacker Christmas list. This issue is bootloaded (ok, forgive us) with tons of DIY tutorials (how to make beautiful, weird sounds with a NeoTrellis, linking your phone to your CircuitPython-running microcontroller to send data and commands, recreating the candle with Arduino and NeoPixels), an interview with Sam...

How high are you right now? If you had a precision altitude sensor, you would know for sure! The DPS310 sensor from Infineon a high precision barometric sensor, perfect for measuring altitude changes with a up to ±0.002 hPa (or ±0.02 m) precision high precision mode and ± 1 hPa absolute accuracy. That means you can know your absolute altitude with 1 meter accuracy when you set the sea-level pressure, and measure changes in...

Looking for something for the little engineer in your life? The Makedo Cardboard Construction Mini-Kit  is a perfect complement to the Makedo Toolkit – a great introduction to the land of Makedo. Enter into the world of playful cardboard construction and build small creations with these reusable parts. Rocket ships, cars, dinosaurs, a knight in cardboard armor – build whatever you can imagine with...

Reinvented Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that aspires to break barriers and aid the movement to get more girls involved in STEM by creating the nation's first print magazine for women in STEM. They have a single mission in mind: to reinvent the general perception of women in STEM fields while inspiring interest in STEM for young women nationwide. Their second issue, LADIES WHO HACK, features our Ladyada on the cover!...

Add motion, direction and orientation sensing to your Arduino project with this all-in-one 9 Degree of Freedom (9-DoF) sensor with sensors from ST. This little breakout contains two chips that sit side-by-side to provide 9 degrees of full motion data. The board includes an LSM6DS33 , a 6-DoF IMU accelerometer + gyro. The 3-axis accelerometer, can tell you which direction is down towards the Earth (by measuring gravity) or how fast the...

Sense the magnetic fields that surround us with this handy triple-axis magnetometer (compass) module. Magnetometers can sense where the strongest magnetic force is coming from, generally used to detect magnetic north, but can also be used for measuring magnetic fields. This sensor tends to be paired with a 6-DoF (degree of freedom) accelerometer/gyroscope to create a 9-DoF inertial measurement unit that can detect its orientation in real-space...

Add motion and orientation sensing to your Arduino project with this affordable 6 Degree of Freedom (6-DoF) sensor with sensors from ST. The board includes an LSM6DS33 , a 6-DoF IMU accelerometer + gyro. The 3-axis accelerometer, can tell you which direction is down towards the Earth (by measuring gravity) or how fast the board is accelerating in 3D space. The 3-axis gyroscope that can measure spin and twist. This chip isn't the newest...

This USB Type C breakout is kinda interesting, it looks similar to our right angle USB C socket breakout, but it's an 'inline' style with pads for soldering to the connections. We think it could be handy for making custom cable harnesses! Unlike our breakout, it also has the true dual-row USB C connector and all pads broken out. It does not have any resistors to set direction/current - required to have USB C enumerate. It's...

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 soldering required!  Just unscrew the terminal blocks and slide in...

This simple Smoke Snap-on Case  is both good looking and tough enough to toss into your bookbag or toolbox. It has slim cut-outs for your cable and battery. It's darkened plastic but you can still easily see the LEDs shining through. The bottom section is open so you can plug it into a micro:bit accessory. This case is great if you want to protect your micro:bit board from every day usage, but note that it is not waterproof or...

This simple  Translucent Snap-on Case  is both good looking and tough enough to toss into your bookbag or toolbox. It has slim cut-outs for your cable and battery. It's translucent plastic so you can still easily see the micro:bit PCB markings and LEDs shining through. The bottom section is open so you can plug it into a micro:bit accessory. This case is great if you want to protect your micro:bit board from every day...

If you'd like to connect a USB-capable chip to your USB host, this cable will make the task very simple. There is no converter chip in this cable! Its basically a plain USB cable that's cut in half and with jumper sockets on the power and data lines. Simple to use, does the job when you have something that exposes the D+/D- pins. Red wire connects to 5V power (from USB host)Black wire connects to common data/power ground White connects...

If you'd like to connect a USB-host-capable chip to your USB peripheral, this cable will make the task very simple.  There is no converter chip in this cable!  It's basically a plain USB cable that's cut in half and with jumper sockets on the power and data lines. Simple to use, does the job when you have something that exposes the D+/D- pins. Red wire connects to  5V  power (to the USB device)Black wire connects...

Inductive charging is a way of powering a device without a direct wire connection. Most people have seen inductive charging in a rechargeable electric toothbrush: you may have noticed that you recharge it by placing it into the holder, but there's no direct plug. These chargers work by taking a power transformer and splitting it in half, an AC waveform is generated into one, and couples into the second coil. This is a basic charger set, and...

Are you a maker in the midst of a STEMMA dilemma? This 200mm long 4-wire cable is a fantastic chimera-cable fitted with STEMMA QT / Sparkfun Qwiic JST SH on one end, and STEMMA JST PH  connectors on the other. You can sand down the center-nub key on the JST PH side to make it fit in a Grove connector. Chunkier JST PH connectors come with 2mm pitch, and JST SH (also known as Qwiic) are 1mm pitch. Both have a nice latching feel,...

The OpenMV Cam is like a super powerful microcontroller board with a camera on board that you program in MicroPython. It's easy to run machine visions algorithms on what the OpenMV Cam sees so you can track colors, detect faces, and more in seconds, and thanks to the embedded functionality, you can then control I/O pins in the real-world. You program the OpenMV Cam in high level MicroPython scripts instead of C/C++. This makes it easier...

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 2x8 IDC cable to this very PCB, which can be DIN rail-mounted. Then, all 16 pins are broken out into terminal blocks, so you can connect and power your sensors, displays, microcontrollers, etc. No soldering required!  Just unscrew the terminal blocks and slide in...

If you have any LEGO Mindstorm or EV3 sensors/motors/controllers you probably noticed the phone-cable-like connectors that are used to go from accessories to controller boards. However, you can't use every-day phone jacks or cables because the little plastic clip is on the side not the center. No need to give up your dreams of interfacing with NXT parts, though! These jacks are just the right type to let you plug in those cables and expose...

What is this, an open boxcar for train traveling ants? It's actually a PCB-or-really-anything holder for all the makers and designers who use DIN railing in their builds. It's pretty simple, so not much to say about it. You have a DIN railing, you want to attach something to it? Maybe it fits in a 50mm x 80mm rectangle? This will do the job. Its easy to assemble in a minute or less. To install onto a DIN rail, attach the...

Analog panel meters are arguably not as blingy or flashy as LEDs, but their simplicity adds a touch of elegance and makes them easier to read quickly. This Small -1 Amp to +1 Amp DC Current Analog Panel Meter  is handheld-size, with three screws to open up the panel and replace the backing paper, if you like. Great for measuring larger bidirectional current draws, perhaps to and from a battery bank or generator. Of course you can...

Analog panel meters are arguably not as blingy or flashy as LEDs, but their simplicity adds a touch of elegance and makes them easier to read quickly. This  Small -15V to +15V Panel Meter is about handheld-size, with three screws to open up the panel and replace the backing paper, if you like. It's great for analog projects that have a split power supply or large voltage swings. The back is constructed with two bolts the left...

Stop fiddling with micro SD card sockets in the back of your latest gadget during development, and give yourself a little more elbow room with this  Small Micro SD Card Extender . This is a great hack for length constraints with 3D printers, single-board computers, data-logging kits and more. Get to your micro SD card in and out without using your fingernails! Insert the micro SD card in the little tray, and gently press the other end...

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 wires are a little more expensive than...

If you've ever said to yourself, "Gee, I wish I had four 12-bit DACs that came in a single package with the ability to save their settings to an EEPROM", well I have good news. The MCP4728 is the answer to your wishes! Within its little package, the MCP4728 has four 12-bit DACs for whatever voltage setting needs you may have. In addition, it has the ability to store the settings for the DACs to an internal EEPROM. Once saved to the...

If you're looking for the most compact li'l color display for a Raspberry Pi (most likely a Pi Zero) project, this might be just the thing you need! The Adafruit Mini PiTFT - 1.3" 240x240 Color TFT Add-on for Raspberry Pi is your little TFT pal, ready to snap onto any and all Raspberry Pi computers, to give you a little display. The Mini PiTFT comes with a full color 240x240 pixel IPS display with great visibility at all...

Automate your own adorable, IoT-enabled papier-mâché house. The small size of this build lets us explore wiring, user interaction, and firmware deployment without having to get a ladder out. After building this project, you can re-purpose this project for your home or apartment. We've specifically selected components and sensors which are common in real-world IoT projects. You can also go further with this project,...

Bring your speaker set into the 21st century with Pirate Audio 3W Stereo Amp for Raspberry Pi ! Get punchy digital audio through the push-fit terminals and control your music with the built-in color LCD and squishy playback control buttons. The push-fit connectors on Pirate Audio 3W Stereo Amp make it super-simple to connect up a set of speakers, whether they're bookshelf or floor-standing speakers, or the speakers in an...

Plug Pirate Audio Line-out for Raspberry Pi into your hi-fi amp or powered speakers, then sit back, relax, and soak in the rich, digital audio. It has a high-quality I2S DAC, high-res color display, and squishy playback control buttons. This board is perfect for upgrading an existing hi-fi amp and speakers, or a set of powered monitors, with digital audio from local audio files (MP3, FLAC, etc.) or from streaming...

Pimoroni's Pirate Audio Speaker is perfect for making a Lilliputian radio, sound effect player, or even as a teeny-weeny games console. The built-in 1W speaker may not be the loudest, but it's great fun for lots of projects. The display and playback squishy buttons let you control your audio or sound effects. Use the Pirate Audio software to play local audio files (MP3, FLAC, etc) or stream from services like Spotify....

Totaling 560 pieces, this  JST-XH Connector Kit  is a must-have for your workstation. You'll have enough sockets and headers to fuel your maker tendencies for days on end! These connectors are really common in electronics, we use the 2 pin ones for our arcade quick-connects. Since they are 0.1" they match nicely with perf-boards, breadboards, plain header, etc. We recommend you own a set of crimping pliers as well,...

Totally 220 pieces, this  JST-PH Connector Kit  is a must-have for your workstation. You'll have enough sockets and plugs to fuel your maker tendencies for days on end! These connectors are really common in electronics, we use the 2 pin ones for our batteries and battery packs. The 3 pin and 4 pin are used for STEMMA connectors. The 4 pin size is even compatible with Grove! They are large enough you can crimp without...

What's smaller than a Feather but larger than a Trinket? It's an Adafruit ItsyBitsy nRF52840 Express featuring the Nordic nRF52840 Bluetooth LE processor! Teensy & powerful, with an fast nRF52840 Cortex M4 processor running at 64 MHz and 1 MB of FLASH - this microcontroller board is perfect when you want something very compact, with a heap-load of memory and Bluetooth LE support This Itsy is your best option for tiny wireless...