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Sure, we've got all sorts of diffused bare LEDs in all sorts of colors and sizes. But have you ever laid your peepers on a set of succulent-shaped LEDs? These look too cute and charming and will look amazing for any magic-, eco-, or agro-science-themed electronics project. Add that extra zing to your project with these handmade LEDs from dLUX-dLITE. Each pack...

Here is a sleek and self-healing hobby mat designed for LEGO® and other brick-builders of all experience levels. The material is very similar to hobby/sewing/cutting mats. The grid design includes helpful layout grids and two radius angle guides. In the upper left corner you get a neat little reference legend for "brick math" along with the height of a LEGO...

Display, elegantly, 012345678 or 9! Gaze, hypnotized, at ABCDEFGHIJKLM - well it can display the whole alphabet. You get the point. This is a nice, bright alphanumeric display that shows letters and numbers in a beautiful yellow hue. It's super bright and designed for viewing from distances up to 23 feet (7 meters) away. Digits have seven yellow segments on a black...

Display, elegantly, 012345678 or 9! Gaze, hypnotized, at ABCDEFGHIJKLM - well it can display the whole alphabet. You get the point. This is a nice, bright alphanumeric display that shows letters and numbers in a beautiful white hue. It's super bright and designed for viewing from distances up to 23 feet (7 meters) away. Digits have seven white segments on a black...

Display, elegantly, 012345678 or 9! Gaze, hypnotized, at ABCDEFGHIJKLM - well it can display the whole alphabet. You get the point. This is a nice, bright alphanumeric display that shows letters and numbers in a beautiful blue hue. It's super bright and designed for viewing from distances up to 23 feet (7 meters) away. Digits have seven blue segments on a black...

Display, elegantly, 012345678 or 9! Gaze, hypnotized, at ABCDEFGHIJKLM - well it can display the whole alphabet. You get the point. This is a nice, bright alphanumeric display that shows letters and numbers in a beautiful red hue. It's super bright and designed for viewing from distances up to 23 feet (7 meters) away. Digits have seven red segments on a black surface...

Display, elegantly, 012345678 or 9! Gaze, hypnotized, at ABCDEFGHIJKLM - well it can display the whole alphabet. You get the point. This is a nice, bright alphanumeric display that shows letters and numbers in a beautiful pure green hue. It's super bright and designed for viewing from distances up to 23 feet (7 meters) away. Digits have seven green segments on a...

From famed author and kit-designer Monk Makes comes the Electronics Notebook. Perfect for the boffin in your life (or the inner-boffin you're harboring inside). Put your own ideas, diagrams, calculations & notes down in these 158 pages of engineering graph paper. It's spiral-bound so easy to use in lab or lay flat on a table. The inner pages alternate with plain...

By popular request, you can now get our 14-segment LED backpacks without the LEDs! These backpacks feature an HT16K33 I2C LED driver, they're simple and easy to use - you can use our very nice library for the backpacks to get running in under half an hour, with numbers and letters displaying. If you've been eyeing matrix displays but hesitated because of the...

Have you found yourself in a maze of twisty-turny knobs, all alike? These micro potentiometer (or rotary encoder) knobs offer a rainbow burst of color to your synth or control panel. They are made of a hard plastic, with a grippy star shape. The shape is sometimes referred to as "Davies 1900" style, but they may not be a perfect size/color match for original Davies...

We have a lot of power adapter packs in the shop - from 9V to 12V to 5V we even have an adjustable power supply like one of these. But all of them will come with the same standard 5.5mm / 2.1mm DC barrel jack that is most common on many devices. What if you'd like to power something different, say some old synthesizer or a laptop or some other whats-it? Basically,...

These hinged momentary step switches are evocative of the 16-step sequencer keys on TR-808 sythesizers. Also sometimes used on A/V equipment, they're very tactile with a good clicky feel. And of course, the built in red LED is great for indicating when something is on or off - or as visual feedback when clicked. There's four legs to the switch for mechanical...

Have you found yourself in a maze of twisty-turny knobs, all alike? These micro potentiometer (or rotary encoder) knobs offer a rainbow burst of color to your synth or control panel. They are made of a hard plastic, with a grippy star shape. The shape is sometimes referred to as "Davies 1900" style, but they may not be a perfect size/color match for original Davies...

Have you found yourself in a maze of twisty-turny knobs, all alike? These micro potentiometer (or rotary encoder) knobs offer a rainbow burst of color to your synth or control panel. They are made of a hard plastic, with a grippy star shape. The shape is sometimes referred to as "Davies 1900" style, but they may not be a perfect size/color match for original Davies...

Have you found yourself in a maze of twisty-turny knobs, all alike? These micro potentiometer (or rotary encoder) knobs offer a rainbow burst of color to your synth or control panel. They are made of a hard plastic, with a grippy star shape. The shape is sometimes referred to as "Davies 1900" style, but they may not be a perfect size/color match for original Davies...

Stretch out your servo connections with this flexible servo to alligator clip cable. It has a 3-pin shrouded "male" connection to plug your servo into and then, 17cm later, three alligator clips - it even keeps the common red/black/white color coding for power/ground/signal as you'd expect! This cable is perfect for connecting a servo to something with clip-pads like...

Stretch out your servo connections with this flexible servo to premium male header jumper cable. It has a 3-pin shrouded "male" connector to plug the servo into and then, 17cm later, three separated jumper wire ends that plug into a breadboard or some header. It's excellent for when you want to quickly and easily connect a servo to an existing dev board with sockets,...

The LCD FeatherWing from Oddly Specific Objects is a low-power, CircuitPython-compatible, I²C-driven display that works with Adafruit’s Feather line of development boards. It uses the BU9796 segment LCD controller to drive a custom liquid crystal display glass with 48 segments, including: Five indicator icons: Bell, Wifi, Moon, Arrows, and Battery. Five...

These hinged momentary step switches are evocative of the 16-step sequencer keys on TR-808 sythesizers. Also sometimes used on A/V equipment, they're very tactile with a good clicky feel. And of course, the built in red LED is great for indicating when something is on or off - or as visual feedback when clicked. There's four legs to the switch for mechanical...

These hinged momentary step switches are evocative of the 16-step sequencer keys on TR-808 sythesizers. Also sometimes used on A/V equipment, they're very tactile with a good clicky feel. And of course, the built in red LED is great for indicating when something is on or off - or as visual feedback when clicked. There's four legs to the switch for mechanical...

These hinged momentary step switches are evocative of the 16-step sequencer keys on TR-808 sythesizers. Also sometimes used on A/V equipment, they're very tactile with a good clicky feel. And of course, the built in red LED is great for indicating when something is on or off - or as visual feedback when clicked. There's four legs to the switch for mechanical...

We now have a handy extension cord for JST-XH projects! One end has a JST-XH socket, and the other has a matching plug. Between the two, 500mm of color-coded wire. This solid 2.5mm pitch connector extension cable is great when you need something that can carry a couple amps of current, easy to connect and disconnect, and is just-about 0.1" pitch compatible. The two...

Sense the magnetic fields surrounding 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...

Have you found yourself in a maze of twisty-turny knobs, all alike? These micro potentiometer (or rotary encoder) knobs offer a rainbow burst of color to your synth or control panel. They are made of a hard plastic, with a grippy star shape. The shape is sometimes referred to as "Davies 1900" style, but they may not be a perfect size/color match for original Davies...

These hinged momentary step switches are evocative of the 16-step sequencer keys on TR-808 sythesizers. Also sometimes used on A/V equipment, they're very tactile with a good clicky feel. And of course, the built in red LED is great for indicating when something is on or off - or as visual feedback when clicked. There's four legs to the switch for mechanical...

These hinged momentary step switches are evocative of the 16-step sequencer keys on TR-808 sythesizers. Also sometimes used on A/V equipment, they're very tactile, with a good clicky feel. And of course, the built in red LED is great for indicating when something is on or off - or as visual feedback when clicked. There's four legs to the switch for mechanical...

Have you found yourself in a maze of twisty-turny knobs, all alike? These micro potentiometer (or rotary encoder) knobs offer a rainbow burst of color to your synth or control panel. They are made of a hard plastic, with a grippy star shape. The shape is sometimes referred to as "Davies 1900" style, but they may not be a perfect size/color match for original Davies...

Have you found yourself in a maze of twisty-turny knobs, all alike? These micro potentiometer (or rotary encoder) knobs offer a rainbow burst of color to your synth or control panel. They are made of a hard plastic, with a grippy star shape. The shape is sometimes referred to as "Davies 1900" style, but they may not be a perfect size/color match for original Davies...

Have you found yourself in a maze of twisty-turny knobs, all alike? These micro potentiometer (or rotary encoder) knobs offer a rainbow burst of color to your synth or control panel. They are made of a hard plastic, with a grippy star shape. The shape is sometimes referred to as "Davies 1900" style, but they may not be a perfect size/color match for original Davies...

Have you found yourself in a maze of twisty-turny knobs, all alike? These micro potentiometer (or rotary encoder) knobs offer a rainbow burst of color to your synth or control panel. They are made of a hard plastic, with a grippy star shape. The shape is sometimes referred to as "Davies 1900" style, but they may not be a perfect size/color match for original Davies...

Have you found yourself in a maze of twisty-turny knobs, all alike? These micro potentiometer (or rotary encoder) knobs offer a rainbow burst of color to your synth or control panel. They are made of a hard plastic, with a grippy star shape. The shape is sometimes referred to as "Davies 1900" style, but they may not be a perfect size/color match for original Davies...

Have you found yourself in a maze of twisty-turny knobs, all alike? These micro potentiometer (or rotary encoder) knobs offer a rainbow burst of color to your synth or control panel. They are made of a hard plastic, with a grippy star shape. The shape is sometimes referred to as "Davies 1900" style, but they may not be a perfect size/color match for original Davies...

These hinged momentary step switches are evocative of the 16-step sequencer keys on TR-808 sythesizers. Also sometimes used on A/V equipment, they're very tactile, with a good clicky feel. And of course, the built in red LED is great for indicating when something is on or off - or as visual feedback when clicked. There's four legs to the switch for mechanical...

Expand your project possibilities, with the Adafruit PCF8574 GPIO Expander Breakout - an affordable 8 channel I2C expander. GPIO expanders work like this: you have a board with some number of GPIO but not enough for your project - maybe you need more buttons or LEDs. You could upgrade to a board with massive number of GPIO like the Grand Central, or you could pop on...

These compact and luxurious machined knobs look fantastic and have a nice feel, a perfect way to upgrade your rotary encoder or potentiometer. We hand-selected the best knobs for your project in different sizes and varieties. This is an Anodized Aluminum Machined Knob in Silver Fox. It's a solid machined aluminum knob, with knurling on the sides for grippyness, and a...

These compact and luxurious machined knobs look fantastic and have a nice feel, a perfect way to upgrade your rotary encoder or potentiometer. We hand-selected the best knobs for your project in different sizes and varieties. This is an Anodized Aluminum Machined Knob in a Gold is Best. It's a solid machined aluminum knob, with knurling on the sides for grippyness,...

These compact and luxurious machined knobs look fantastic and have a nice feel, a perfect way to upgrade your rotary encoder or potentiometer. We hand-selected the best knobs for your project in different sizes and varieties. This is an Anodized Aluminum Machined Knob in Blue Steel. It's a solid machined aluminum knob, with knurling on the sides for grippyness, and a...

These compact and luxurious machined knobs look fantastic and have a nice feel, a perfect way to upgrade your rotary encoder or potentiometer. We hand-selected the best knobs for your project in different sizes and varieties. This is an Anodized Aluminum Machined Knob in Cherry Red. It's a solid machined aluminum knob, with knurling on the sides for grippyness, and a...

These compact and luxurious machined knobs look fantastic and have a nice feel, a perfect way to upgrade your rotary encoder or potentiometer. We hand-selected the best knobs for your project in different sizes and varieties. This is an Anodized Aluminum Machined Knob in classic Adafruit Black. It's a solid machined aluminum knob, with knurling on the sides for...

This USB Type C cable adds a DB-9 (DE-9) serial port to your computer or laptop. Works with MacOS X, Linux, and Windows. Note that this provides (approximately) +-6V serial (RS232) not 5V serial (TTL), good for old devices like GPS, handhelds, programmers, etc with chunky DB9's on the side. Some cheaper RS232 cables 'cheat' and only give you 0-5V which won't work...

When you want a super skinny Ethernet / CAT-6 cable, this noodle-y UTP jumper is only 3mm thick at the center so that it can flex around enclosures easily. This cable is 30cm long, about one imperial foot, comes in Adafruit black. CAT6 means it's great for Ethernet-based LANs and other data networks. UTP means the wires are unshielded - much thinner but not great for...

When you want a super skinny Ethernet / CAT-6 cable, this noodle-y UTP jumper is only 3mm thick at the center, so it can flex around enclosures easily. This cable is 1 meter long, comes in Adafruit black. CAT6 means it's great for Ethernet-based LANs and other data networks. UTP means the wires are unshielded - much thinner but not great for ultra-long lengths (thats...

This linear slide potentiometer comes with an added kick - its not just a plain old slide pot! Underneath is mounted a slim geared DC motor that can gently move the wiper up and down, without human interaction. Often seen in very fancy A/V control panels, you could use these as linear feedback sensors for light robotics, or for interactive controls that can be...

Add high-quality 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 ST LSM6DS3TR-C (a.k.a LSM6DS3), a great entry-level 6-DoF IMU accelerometer +...

When designing your next PCB, if you're not sure what sort of tactile switches you can fit, or how they would look, this Tactile Switch Assortment with 25 Different Buttons (10 pcs each type) is incredibly handy! You get just enough that you can prototype and even lose a couple pieces, but not so many that you're drowning in buttons. Also great for repair, if you're...

The DRV2605 from TI is a fancy little motor driver. Rather than controlling a stepper motor or DC motor, its designed specifically for controlling haptic motors - buzzers and vibration motors. Normally one would just turn those kinds of motors on and off, but this driver has the ability to have various effects when driving a vibe motor. For example, ramping the...

The Ultraleap 3Di Stereo Hand Tracking Camera is designed to be connected to an interactive screen. Together with Ultraleap’s world-leading software, it transforms displays into touchless, three-dimensional, immersive surfaces. Ultraleap 3Di allows easy integration of Ultraleap hand tracking in a form factor ruggedized for use in permanent settings – such...

This rubber sheet is made of the same carbon-black impregnated rubber material that our conductive rubber cord uses. Traditionally it would be used for EMF shielding, or conductive gaskets - but it's very fun to play with and we think it makes for an interesting stretch sensor or maybe a conductive material that is soft and conforming. In a 'relaxed' state, the bulk...

This rubber sheet is made of the same carbon-black impregnated rubber material that our conductive rubber cord uses. Traditionally it would be used for EMF shielding, or conductive gaskets - but it's very fun to play with and we think it makes for an interesting stretch sensor or maybe a conductive material that is soft and conforming. In a 'relaxed' state, the bulk...

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 ST LSM6DS3TR-C, a great entry-level 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...

If you love power adapters or toys & gadgets that have magnetic connections, you can now experiment with these futuristic connectors easily. It's sorta like a DIY "MagSafe-styled" connector, with nine 2.2mm spaced contact pogo pins and a straight solderable connection to your PCB. If you've ever owned a MacBook or a littleBits set, you'll find the functionality...

If you love power adapters or toys & gadgets that have magnetic connections, you can now experiment with these futuristic connectors easily. It's sorta like a DIY "MagSafe-styled" connector, with eight 2.2mm spaced contact pogo pins and a straight solderable connection to your PCB. If you've ever owned a MacBook or a littleBits set, you'll find the functionality...

If you love power adapters or toys & gadgets that have magnetic connections, you can now experiment with these futuristic connectors easily. It's sorta like a DIY "MagSafe-styled" connector, with seven 2.2mm spaced contact pogo pins and a straight solderable connection to your PCB. If you've ever owned a MacBook or a littleBits set, you'll find the functionality...

If you love power adapters or toys & gadgets that have magnetic connections, you can now experiment with these futuristic connectors easily. It's sorta like a DIY "MagSafe-styled" connector, with six 2.2mm spaced contact pogo pins and a straight solderable connection to your PCB. If you've ever owned a MacBook or a littleBits set, you'll find the functionality...

The Raspberry Pi foundation changed single-board computing when they released the Raspberry Pi computer, now they're ready to do the same for microcontrollers with the release of the brand new Raspberry Pi Pico H with Soldered Headers. This low-cost microcontroller board features their powerful new chip, the RP2040, and all the fixin's to get started with IoT...

Coming soon! Sign up to be notified when these are in stock The Raspberry Pi foundation changed single-board computing when they released the Raspberry Pi computer, now they're ready to do the same for microcontrollers with the release of the brand new Raspberry Pi Pico WH. This low-cost microcontroller board features their powerful new chip, the RP2040, and all the...

The Raspberry Pi foundation changed single-board computing when they released the Raspberry Pi computer, now they're ready to do the same for microcontrollers with the release of the brand new Raspberry Pi Pico W. This low-cost microcontroller board features their powerful new chip, the RP2040, and all the fixin's to get started with IoT embedded electronics projects...

These ultra-fine wired LEDs are designed for model-makers and crafters but they could also come in handy for folks who want to add tiny points of light to a design without needing SMT-level soldering skills. Use this five-pack bundle of Miniature Wired 0805 LEDs for easy-breezy LED wiring. They're very small (2mm x 1.25mm), so they're easy to embed into any...

These ultra-fine wired LEDs are designed for model-makers and crafters but they could also come in handy for folks who want to add tiny points of light to a design without needing SMT-level soldering skills. Use this five-pack bundle of Miniature Wired 0805 LEDs for easy-breezy LED wiring. They're very small (2mm x 1.25mm), so they're easy to embed into any...

These ultra-fine wired LEDs are designed for model-makers and crafters but they could also come in handy for folks who want to add tiny points of light to a design without needing SMT-level soldering skills. Use this five-pack bundle of Miniature Wired 0805 LEDs for easy-breezy LED wiring. They're very small (2mm x 1.25mm), so they're easy to embed into any...

Peep the ROAR! Awards 2019 Gold Winner for Best Teen-Tween Product, the Space Girl Soldering Kit from Elkei Education! Project-based kits are a great way to show how to work with circuits, how to troubleshoot, and the possibilities of what you can create in a guided activity. Kit includes a custom-designed printed circuit board, LEDs, on/off switch, badge pin and...

These ultra-fine wired LEDs are designed for model-makers and crafters but they could also come in handy for folks who want to add tiny points of light to a design without needing SMT-level soldering skills. Use this five-pack bundle of Miniature Wired 0805 LEDs for easy-breezy LED wiring. They're very small (2mm x 1.25mm), so they're easy to embed into any...

Peep the ROAR! Awards 2019 Gold Winner for Best Teen-Tween Product, from down under comes the Biology Girl Soldering Kit from Elkei Education! Project-based kits are a great way to show how to work with circuits, how to troubleshoot, and the possibilities of what you can create in a guided activity. Kit includes a custom-designed printed circuit board, LEDs, on/off...

These ultra-fine wired LEDs are designed for model-makers and crafters but they could also come in handy for folks who want to add tiny points of light to a design without needing SMT-level soldering skills. Use this five-pack bundle of Miniature Wired 0805 LEDs for easy-breezy LED wiring. They're very small (2mm x 1.25mm), so they're easy to embed into any...

This little buck converter based on the TLV62569 3.3V is super handy, taking up to 5.5V input and providing a 3.3V output with up to 1.2A continuous current. It's great for supplying power to popular 3.3V voltage circuits from a range of battery or power options. This chip provides up to 1.2 Amp load current continuously across the entire input voltage range of 3.4...

Why are bananas never lonely? Because they hang around in bunches! A lot of power supplies, multimeters, and other benchtop equipment use standard 4mm banana plugs to connect this-to-that. When you need more, we now stock them! These are handy stackable and retractable Banana Plug cables! The retracting plastic protection bit on the end will automagically disappear...

Why are bananas never lonely? Because they hang around in bunches! A lot of power supplies, multimeters, and other benchtop equipment use standard 4mm banana plugs to connect this-to-that. When you need more, we now stock them! These are handy stackable and retractable Banana Plug cables! The retracting plastic protection bit on the end will automagically disappear...

The Icarus is a cost-effective cellular IoT board built around Nordic Semi's nRF9160 modem and combines LTE-M, NB-IoT, GPS, accelerometer, USB, LiPo charger, as well as an eSIM with free data out of the box and a nano SIM connector. Control, monitor, and keep track of any asset, fleet or cargo, quickly and easily with this pre-certified device! You might be looking...

For microcontrollers without an analog-to-digital converter or when you want a higher-precision ADC, the ADS1115 provides 16-bit precision at 860 samples/second over I2C. The chip can be configured as 4 single-ended input channels, or two differential channels. As a nice bonus, it even includes a programmable gain amplifier, up to x16, to help boost up smaller...

For microcontrollers without an analog-to-digital converter or when you want a higher-precision ADC, the ADS1015 provides 12-bit precision at 3300 samples/second over I2C. The chip can be configured as 4 single-ended input channels or two differential channels. As a nice bonus, it even includes a programmable gain amplifier, up to x16, to help boost up smaller...

If your soldering isn't quite up to scratch, or you just don't own a soldering iron yet, then these nifty hammer headers from Pimoroni might be just what you need. This version includes one piece of male header along with some crafty little retaining nubbins to grip tightly into the holes on the PCB. If you need both male and female headers, check out this version!...

You might recognize this interesting new component from behind-the-scenes studio clips of audio recording equipment or even music videos. A fader is a control device for fading or changing the sound volume, light intensity, or simply the gain on an audio or video signal. Here is a small, black handheld-size DIY version for your next audio or music (maybe even with a...

The ESP-BOX is a new generation AIoT development platform released by Espressif Systems. The ESP32-S3-BOX is an AIoT development board that is based on Espressif’s ESP32-S3 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC. The ESP32-S3-BOX provides a platform for developing the control of home appliances using Voice Assistance + touch screen controller, sensor, infrared...

Can you believe CircuitPython is now in its eighth iteration? That's right! Join us, Blinka, and the ESP32 maker community as we connect online and build upon the coding future for all makers. Feature-wise, CircuitPython 8 will focus on WiFi connectivity: we'll be exploring WiFi workflow, support for even more WiFi chipsets and Espressif boards, maybe even dabble in...

As technology changes and adapts, so does Adafruit, and speaking of adapting, this wee microadapter has a USB A jack (e.g. it will plug into a computer with an A port) and a USB C socket so your older computer or laptop can catch up to the latest USB Type C. USB C is the latest industry-standard connector for transmitting data and power. Like Lightning and MagSafe...

This is a clear 13.56MHz RFID/NFC Keychain Fob with an NTAG203 chip - often used for train/bus passes, information sharing, and contactless payment, but also found in other systems where a proximity card is desired. The tag contains a small RFID chip and an antenna and is passively powered by the reader/writer when placed a couple inches away. These can be read by...

We've got battery holders for all sorts of needs and projects! Waterproof? Here ya go. With a clicky on/off switch? Easy peasy. Here's our latest addition in classy Adafruit black: 2 x AA Battery Holder with Knife Switch. What's so special about 'em? Well with the knife switch you can easily control the flow of electricity to your project. While there are many...