I mew, you mew we all mew for IMU! The MPU-6050 is what we call "an oldie but goodie" - this popular triple axis accelerometer plus gyro combo has been a staple of electronic projects for years, and we've finally gotten around to making a breakout for it! Inside are two sensors, one is a classic 3-axis accelerometer, which can tell you which direction is down towards the Earth (by measuring gravity). The other is a gyroscoe that...

Do you know which way the wind blows? You will now, with this triple-axis accelerometer/magnetometer compass module. Inside are two sensors, one is a classic 3-axis accelerometer, which can tell you which direction is down towards the Earth (by measuring gravity). The other is a magnetometer that can sense where the strongest magnetic force is coming from, generally used to detect magnetic north. By combining this data you can then orient your...

Machine learning has come to the 'edge' - small microcontrollers that can run a very miniature version of TensorFlow Lite to do ML computations.  But you don't need super complex hardware to start developing your own TensorFlow models! We've adapted our popular PyBadge board to add a microphone so you can dip your toes into machine learning waters. It does everything that the PyBadge does, and as we make more projects that...

EVA foam is one of the best and easiest go-to materials for constructing costumes and props. It's light, inexpensive, versatile, and can easily be cut and heat-shaped for a snug fit. With enough time, patience, and the right tools, EVA foam can be finished to look like nearly any material. Use to create costume armor, headpieces, prop weapons, and other accessories. These sheets are just under 2mm in thickness and come in 10 colors:...

This miniature GPS breakout is only 1" x 1" (~ 25mm x 25mm) but houses a complete GPS/GNSS solution with both I2C and UART interfaces. There's even an antenna on top so it's plug and play! Support for GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, QZSS-165 dBm sensitivity, up to 10 Hz updatesUp to 210 PRN channels with 99 search channels and 33 simultaneous tracking channels5V friendly design and only 30mA current drawBreadboard-able, with 4 mounting...

Add some jazz & pizzazz to your project with a color capacitive touchscreen LCD. This TFT display is big (2.8" diagonal) bright (4 white-LED backlight) and colorful! 240x320 pixels with individual RGB pixel control, this has way more resolution than a black and white 128x64 display. As a bonus, this display has a  capacitive  single-touch touchscreen attached to it already, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the...

This is a screen for advanced hackers who like the look of the TFT screen we've put into the TFT Gizmo and Monster M4sk. The 1.54" 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 PCB is included!...

ST takes flight in this upcoming Feather board. The new STM32F405 Feather (video) that we designed runs CircuitPython at a blistering 168MHz – our fastest CircuitPython board ever! We put a STEMMA QT / Qwiic port on the end, so you can really easily plug and play I2C sensors. This Feather has lots of goodies: STM32F405 Cortex M4 with 1MB Flash, 168MHz speed3.3V logic, but almost all pins are 5V compliant!USB C power and data - our first...

The latest addition to Spresense's hardware ecosystem is the Spresense Camera Board that connects directly to the main board’s camera interface.  The Spresense camera board has the Sony ISX012 image sensor mounted with a lens. The Sony ISX012 has an effective pixel count of 5.11M pixels and an onboard encoder that can acquire pictures in JPEG, RAW, Y/C or RGB format. More on the Sony ISX012 image sensor: Sensor type: 1/4 type...

Spresense is a compact development board based on Sony’s power-efficient multicore microcontroller CXD5602. It allows developers to create IoT applications in a very short time and is supported by the Arduino IDE as well as the more advanced NuttX based SDK. The Spresense Extension Board has the following connectors in addition to Arduino Uno compatible pin sockets: 3.5 mm headphone jackMicroSD card ( not included , but we carry...

Coming soon! Sign up to be notified when we have these in the store SPRESENSE  is a low-power board computer for the IoT that is equipped with a GPS receiver and supports High-Resolution Audio codecs. The board allows for IoT versatility and can be developed for a vast range of uses, such as a drone utilizing the GPS and high-performance processor, a smart speaker utilizing High-Resolution Audio recording and playback as well as the...

Circuit Playground Express is the next step towards a perfect introduction to electronics and programming. We've taken the original Circuit Playground Classic and made it even better! Not only did we pack even more sensors in, we also made it even easier to program. Start your journey with Microsoft MakeCode block-based or Javascript programming. Then, you can use the same board to try CircuitPython , with the Python interpreter running...

Ready Players 1 and 2? Double up on your MakeCode gaming with a Sync Cable ! We got this Micro B USB to Micro B USB cable specially made to connect you and your frenemy for co-op fun or player-versus-player showdowns. Works with our PyBadges and PyGamer - we connected the JACDAC pin to the 5th ID pin of the Micro B cable so data can pass back and forth. It's one meter long, so you and your cohort will have enough elbow...

If Adafruit were a manga, it would definitely look like this. Wow, wouldn't that be mega-sugoi?  Ladyada-sensei, notice me! It's difficult not to feel like an excited otaku while looking at this enchanting cyber-bishoujo cover.  New Ada-friend Mitsuharu Aoyama  has published a beautiful, thoughtfully designed beginner's book on CircuitPython with Circuit Playground Express. We are pleased and...

Oh so handy, this little lipo charger is so small and easy to use you can keep it on your desk or mount it easily into any project! Simply plug it via any USB C cable into a USB port and a 3.7V/4.2V lithium polymer or lithium ion rechargeable battery into the JST plug on the other end. There are two LEDs - one red and one green. While charging, the red LED is lit. When the battery is fully charged and ready for use, the green LED turns on....

Always be ready rock out or record with this 5-watt Guitar Amplifier, Portable Recorder, and USB Audio Interface from Monoprice. This handheld 5-watt amp delivers plenty of loudness and clarity for ad hoc al fresco performances. It has a built-in guitar distortion effect, so you can get great sound without needing external processors. In addition to the 1/4" guitar cable input, it features a 3.5mm microphone input, so you can add...

STEMMA plug-and-play parts make your next project soldering-free! This is the STEMMA Non-Latching Mini Relay . It gives you power to control, and control over power. Put simply, you can now turn on and off lamps, fans, solenoids, and other small appliances that run on up to 250VAC or DC power using any microcontroller or microcomputer, with ease. No worrying about flyback diodes, level shifting, pin protection. The STEMMA board takes...

Here is an updated, excellently designed stand that provides a sleek and sturdy look for the 7" Touchscreen Display and Raspberry Pi. Say hello to the improved  SmartiPi Touch 2 which has a ton of new goodies like Pi 4 compatibility, various front-pieces for adding LEGO brick compatibility, and even a fan and mount! The 7" Display is secured into the case with four screws, and your Raspberry Pi is enclosed in a compartment on...

Need a smart solution for covering the back of your SmartiPi Touch display stand? This simple cover from SmartiPi screws into the back VESA mounts on the SmartiPi Touch with the four included screws. It allows you to protect HAT boards and other electronic components that you might want for your project. It's made of ABS plastic and will have to be cut, drilled, or modified for your application. The case also helps protect the...

Need a smart solution for covering the back of your SmartiPi Touch 2 display stand? This simple cover from SmartPi screws into the back VESA mounts on the SmartiPi Touch 2 with the four included screws. It allows you to protect HAT boards and other electronic components that you might want for your project. It's made of ABS plastic and will have to be cut, drilled, or modified for your application. The case also helps protect the...

This simple spring antenna matches great with any of our 433MHz RFM and LoRa breakouts, bonnets and Feathers. They're made of copper-clad wire so you can solder them easily. They are compact, only  ~38mm / 1.5" long, and have 2.5dBi of gain and 50Ω impedance, so it will work fantastically with just about any 400~450MHz wireless receiver/transmitter.

The Coral Dev Board is a single-board computer that's ideal when you need to perform fast machine learning (ML) inferencing in a small form factor. You can use the Dev Board to prototype your embedded system and then scale to production using the on-board Coral System-on-Module (SoM) combined with your custom PCB hardware. The SoM provides a fully-integrated system, including NXP's iMX8M system-on-chip (SoC), eMMC memory,...

This audio adaptor lets you easily add high quality 16 bit, 44.1 kHz sample rate (CD quality) audio to your projects with Teensy 4.0 (Rev D). It supports stereo headphone and stereo line-level output, and also stereo line-level input or mono microphone input. The Teensy Audio Library lets you use the input and output simultaneously together with a toolkit of audio processing objects, to easily create all types of sophisticated audio...

Exploring Arduino  makes electrical engineering and embedded software accessible. Learn step by step everything you need to know about electrical engineering, programming, and human-computer interaction through a series of increasingly complex projects. Arduino guru Jeremy Blum walks you through each build, providing code snippets and schematics that will remain useful for future projects. Projects are accompanied by downloadable source...

Pipe audio in or out of your project with this very handy panel mount audio jack. It's a mono jack with a disconnect pin so you'll get a ground sleeve pin, a left tip pin and a pin that will be disconnected when a jack is inserted. You can use any 3.5mm audio cable with this jack. Each jack comes with two solder eyelets and a panel mounting hex-nut. They made of all-metal construction with paper phenolic spacers. 3.5mm connectors...

These are the smallest NeoPixel breakouts around! Tiny, bright RGB pixels to your project. These little PCBs are only 9.1mm x 9.1mm and have two sets of three pads on the back for soldering wires. These ultra-bright LEDs have a constant-current driver cooked right into the LED package! The pixels are chainable - so you only need 1 pin/wire to control as many LEDs as you like. These pixels have full 24-bit color ability with PWM taken care of by...

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, as...

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 - 135x240 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 240x135 pixel IPS display with great visibility at all angles. The TFT...

Looking for a way to keep your Raspberry Pi 4 running cool  and also   look cool? We've got a two-birds-one-stone solution for you. This enclosure kit is absolutely perfect, is extra durable, but also terribly chic. Constructed from solid anodized aluminum, so it's got nice heft. It has slim openings for all your cables, slots for your Pi Camera and other peripherals, and a space for a GPIO...

Looking for a way to keep your Raspberry Pi 4 running cool and also look cool? We've got a two-birds-one-stone solution for you. This enclosure kit is absolutely perfect, is extra durable, but also terribly chic. Constructed from solid anodized aluminum, so it's got nice heft. It has slim openings for all your cables, slots for your Pi Camera and other peripherals, and a space for a GPIO cable to extend...

The  Pimoroni Picade Cabinet  is a stylish, retro, and fun arcade cabinet for your Raspberry Pi! The Picade Cabinet comes in kit form for you to build at home. All parts, panels, and components are included - you just need to supply the Raspberry Pi, micro SD card, and power adapter. We recommend using a Raspberry Pi 3 as the extra processing power gives great performance in many emulators. This is the 10" desktop arcade...

Trends come and go, but preparedness is always in fashion! Have you ever been in a situation where you desperately needed a screwdriver right away ? Now you can have one at-the-ready all the time — enter the Tactical Multi-Tool Hairpin ! Perfect for MacGyver'ing your way out of escape rooms or other settings. We're not saying this was developed in a top-secret Mossad R&D Lab - but, seriously, how cool would this be...

Say hello to our 1.14" 240x135 Color TFT Display w/ MicroSD Card Breakout – we think it's T - F - T errific! It's the size of your thumbnail, with glorious 240x135 high res pixel color. This very very small display is only 1.14" diagonal, packed with RGB pixels, for making very small high-density displays. We've been looking for a display like this for a long time - it's so small only 1.14" diagonal but has a...

The Pimoroni Picade Cabinet is a stylish, retro, and fun arcade cabinet for your Raspberry Pi! The Picade Cabinet comes in kit form for you to build at home. All parts, panels, and components are included - you just need to supply the Raspberry Pi and power adapter. We highly recommend using a Raspberry Pi 3 as the extra processing power gives great performance in many emulators. This is the desktop arcade cabinet version of the Pimoroni...

We have all sorts of LED strips for a wide range of needs. Chonky strips? We got those! Strips with alligator clips that are easy-peasy to MakeCode? Oh definitely. Weatherproof? We have a gamut of options. Now we have some Honey I Shrunk the LED Strips in the store. At an astonishing 4mm width these are wee yet surprisingly flexible and can fit just about anywhere. The wires are even nicely color-coded: black for ground, green for...

RVR is Sphero’s revolutionary take on the programmable robot. It’s drivable right out of the box, packed with a diverse suite of sensors, and built for customization. This tank-style robot is a hackable mobile platform for beginners, educators, students, and tech hobbyists.   Download the Sphero Edu app to drive or program RVR all over. Literally. RVR is equipped with all-terrain treads, a powerful motor, and plenty of torque so...

This is a STEMMA I2C breakout for the Infineon OPTIGA TRUST M SLS 32AIA. OPTIGA Trust M is the next generation of Trust X. OPTIGA Trust M brings RSA 1K/2K + ECC256/384. A crypto authentication chip much like the ATECC608 STEMMA we put into the shop last week, but with: ECC NIST P256/P384, SHA-256, TRNG, DRNG, RSA® 1024/2048 and 4.5K of user memory. This chip can store your private keys securely, as well as generate true random...

Easy e-paper finally comes to microcontrollers, with this breakout that's designed to make it a breeze to add a tri-color eInk display. Chances are you've seen one of those new-fangled 'e-readers' like the Kindle or Nook. They have gigantic electronic paper 'static' displays - that means the image stays on the display even when power is completely disconnected. The image is also high contrast and very daylight readable....

This cable is a little over 100mm / 4" long and fitted with JST-PH 3-pin connectors on either end.  We dig the solid and compact nature of these connectors and the latch that keeps the cable from coming apart easily. We're carrying these to match up with our STEMMA boards and sensors that have 3-pin connections - and the wires are even color coded! Red is power, ground is black and signal is white. The 3 wires are 22AWG...

The smallest, most feature-rich ESP32 dev board is here! TinyPICO has incredible processing power for a board that's shorter than an alkaline battery. Thanks to creator-maker Seon Rozenblum, you can tinker with a tiny, mighty, uncompromising board with 4MB extra RAM, on-board RGB LED, and a 700 mAh 3.3V regulator. MicroPython firmware is pre-loaded, and with support for Arduino IDE and Espressif IDF, you get the flexibility to code your...

I was hacking in the lab quite late one night - soldering pins and debugging the bytes When suddenly a bang exploded with sparks, and a figure emerged from the hazy dark! (It wore a mask) It wore a monster mask! (The monster mask) Its eyes were LCD glass (It wore a mask) It had some chips on the back (The monster mask) And a sweet solder mask This Halloween you will be the spookiest in town thanks to ADABOX 13! Cat eyes, or monster...

The Adafruit PCT2075 Temperature Sensor is a 'code compatible' drop in replacement for a very common I2C temperature sensor, the LM75. Compared to the LM75, however, the 11-bit ADC in the PCT2075 provides more precise measurements when compared to the LM75's 9-bit ADC. Additionally because the PCT2075 allows the address pins to work in three states (high, low, floating), you can have 27 PCT2075s on the same bus as opposed to only 8...

We've upgraded our popular UNTZtrument with a total make-over, and it's been reborn as the NeoTrellis 8x8 Kit pack. This open-source 8x8 Grid Controller Kit with a super-specifically-laser-cut enclosure turns four panels of 4x4 NeoTrellis's into a handheld Feather M4 Express-powered light/music maker! Perfect for your next cool interface, MIDI instrument, control panel... whatever could benefit from a glow-up with an...

Are you a super Cartoon Network fan and interested in making cosplay and Halloween projects with a Circuit Playground Express, but overwhelmed with what to buy?  Here's a huge kit to get started, no matter your skill level. This kit includes beautiful and colorful programmable  NeoPixel  LEDs to glow up (a Circuit Playground Express and a NeoPixel strip), conductive nylon tape, supplies to attach it...

Are you interested in making cosplay and Halloween projects with a Circuit Playground Express, but overwhelmed with what to buy? Better yet, do you love Cartoon Network characters and shows? Here's a intermediary pack to get started, no matter your skill level. This kit includes beautiful and colorful programmable  NeoPixel  LEDs to glow up (a Circuit Playground Express and a NeoPixel strip), conductive...

Are you interested in making cosplay and Halloween projects with a Circuit Playground Express, but overwhelmed with what to buy? Better yet, do you love Cartoon Network characters and shows? Here's a beginner pack to get started, no matter your skill level. This kit includes beautiful and colorful programmable NeoPixel  LEDs to glow up (a Circuit Playground Express and a NeoPixel strip) and a AAA battery...

It's rare to see breadboard friendly I2C sensors, but this TO-220 package with 5 pins is, in fact, such a thing! It's a basic temperature sensor, not the highest precision in the world, only ±2°C but it will get the job done when you need simple temperature logging or monitoring. Wiring it up is easy, pin 2 is SDA, middle pin is GND, pin 4 is SCL and the rightmost pin 5 is VDD. You can power it with 3.3 or 5V logic so it's...

If you're a DIY enthusiast who likes to  micro -manage your project's connections, here is a 10-pack of some  micro  JST SH connectors! They're solid plastic with 4 x 1mm pitch through-hole mounting tabs. In an SMT line you can just paste over the through holes and the pads will solder in place. These connectors can be used with Qwiic boards and cables to easily connect sensors and drivers from one...

Hey, have you heard the good news? With Adafruit STEMMA boards you can easily and safely plug sensors and devices together, like this Adafruit STEMMA Speaker - Plug and Play Audio Amplifier . Like the name implies, it's got a class D audio amplifier on board, and our favorite little 1 Watt 8 ohm speaker. Connecting it up is easy - you only need ground, 3 to 5V power, and audio signal. The audio signal does not need to be AC coupled, we do...

Testing and debugging is a challenging step in board manufacturing. 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 Basic Micro SMT Test Hooker have solderable tabs on one end so you can attach a wire, and on the business end, a spring-actuated double-hook.They easily snap onto your project, and they're ideal for ultra-low profile...