If you're a DIY enthusiast who'd like to update your project's connection to the latest USB standard, here is a 10-pack of  USB C jack connectors! They're sturdy metal with 4 through-hole mounting tabs and two positioning/shear-protection dots. It's really hard to rip these off a PCB. In an SMT line you can just paste over the through-hole slots, and the pads will solder in place. We use this connector for...

These iridescent silver-bluish-purple sequins can be used for a variety of maker projects for some shimmery wintery glitz. Also perfect as snowflake confetti for your holiday party! A great match-up with our Snow Globe kit, they really sparkle and shine when hit with NeoPixel glow. Comes in a little screw-top box that contains ~300 sequins give or take, so it's ok if you drop some.

This LED Ring Light is designed for use with microscopes but we kinda like the design and think it could be a really nice LED element for costuming or lighting effects or... something else? Of course you could also just use it is a great addition to your photo and video projects. It's super illuminating  with cool, soft, light, perfect for photo studio lighting. We've also seen these used as microscope illuminators for intense,...

The Pi Supply Bit:Buggy Car is a small and cute DIY smart car based around the BBC micro:bit. It's a simple but well-designed lil robot car and is a great way to take the micro:bit and turn it into a robotics platform! No soldering or heavy assembly skills needed - comes together in about 30 minutes to an hour depending on age. Bit:Buggy has 3 extended GPIO ports - two for driving servos and one for, well, any other stuff!...

Used along with the solder sucker to clean up soldering messes. Wick really comes in handy when soldering or desoldering surface-mount parts. Even if you don't have the best iron for SMT work, a bit of wick will fix it up. This is thinner, SMT-friendly 0.8mm wick, and 1.5m long, so you have plenty to work with. We also carry solder wick with 1.5mm width  (try saying that 5x fast!)

Listen up! This single  2.8" x 1.2" speaker is the perfect addition to any audio project where you need 4 ohm impedance and 3W or less of power. We particularly like these speakers as they are small and enclosed for good audio volume and quality. This speaker does not come with a connector on the end, it's just plain bare wires! Works peachy-keen with any of our audio amps as well, such as the MAX98306, TS2012 or...

We're with the squad back at New York's hottest cyberpunk club,  Near Field Commune(ication),  and it's  still  got  everything ,  Adabot & the Circuit Playground,  Collin's wondrous, mind-blowing, heart-stirring Pulse Room, and more! And you are dressed to the cyber-nine's, with wearable LEDs, EL tape, a full set of glittering RFID/NFC Nail...

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 built-in full-digital amplifier, or a low-power time-lapse camera utilizing...

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 built-in full-digital amplifier, or a low-power time-lapse camera utilizing...

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...

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...

Sometimes you need to sense pressure in a damp or caustic environment. And sometimes you need to know the relative changes in pressure as well as the absolute pressure. For the times you need to do both (or either), the LPS33HW is the pressure sensor for you. Combining protection from water intrusion with support for high precision relative and absolute measurements, this sensor will do what you need. With drivers for CircuitPython, Arduino, and...

This anti-static work mat is great for electronic work and repair, especially delicate or ESD sensitive work. It's 2mm thick and has a very high-resistance covering, like 10's of Megaohms. There's a clip attached that you need to connect to an earth ground in order to ground the mat. Usually, folks connect it to a known-grounded metal chassis. While this mat is somewhat heat-resistant it is not as resistant as our silicone mats, so...

Feather is the new development board from Adafruit, and like its namesake, it is thin, light, and lets you fly! We designed Feather to be a new standard for portable microcontroller cores. This is the Assembled   Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi w/ATWINC1500  - our take on an 'all-in-one' Arduino-compatible + high speed, reliable WiFi with built in USB and battery charging. Its an Adafruit Feather M0 with a WiFi module, ready...

Circuit Playground Bluefruit is our third board in the Circuit Playground series, another step towards a perfect introduction to electronics and programming. We've taken the popular Circuit Playground Express and made it even better! Now the main chip is an nRF52840 microcontroller which is not only more powerful, but also comes with Bluetooth Low Energy support for wireless connectivity. The board is round and has alligator-clip pads around...

These three Stacking Headers  alone are, well, lonely. But pair them with our ItsyBitsy boards, and you're in business! Great for putting something a-top your ItsyBitsy, like this AirLift bitsy add-on. Also works great for 'short' Teensy boards - not Teensy 3.5 or 3.6 long style boards. Note:  Kit includes two 14-pin and one 5-pin header.  ItsyBitsy not included.  Don't need all that stack?...

These displays are small, only about 1.3" diagonal, but very readable due to the high contrast of an OLED display. This display is made of 128x64 individual white OLED pixels, each one is turned on or off by the controller chip. Because the display makes its own light, no backlight is required. This reduces the power required to run the OLED and is why the display has such high contrast; we really like this miniature display for its...

These displays are small, only about 1" diagonal, but very readable due to the high contrast of an OLED display. This display is made of 128x32 individual white OLED pixels, each one is turned on or off by the controller chip. Because the display makes its own light, no backlight is required. This reduces the power required to run the OLED and is why the display has such high contrast; we really like this miniature display for its...

Designing boards with plug-n-play connectivity is a snap, with STEMMA connectors. Here's a pack of 10 of our favorite 2mm pitch connector - the JST PH 3 pin. These are the horizontal style. You can use these with any of our JST PH 3 / STEMMA cables. They're not STEMMA QT compatible (those use the smaller JST SH).  We also carry these connectors in vertical style. For more information about JST PH connectors, visit the JST website

Designing boards with plug-n-play connectivity is a snap, with STEMMA connectors. Here's a pack of 10 of our favorite 2mm pitch connector - the JST PH 3 pin. These are the vertical style. You can use these with any of our JST PH 3 / STEMMA cables. They're not STEMMA QT compatible (those use the smaller JST SH).  We also carry these connectors in horizontal style. For more information about JST PH connectors, visit the JST...

Designing boards with plug-n-play connectivity is a snap, with STEMMA connectors. Here's a pack of 10 of our favorite 2mm pitch connector - the JST PH 4 pin. These are the horizontal style. You can use these with any of our JST PH 4 / STEMMA cables. They're not STEMMA QT compatible (those use the smaller JST SH). However, you  can  fit Seeed Grove connectors into JST PH which is pretty handy. We also carry these connectors...

Designing boards with plug-n-play connectivity is a snap, with STEMMA connectors. Here's a pack of 10 of our favorite 2mm pitch connector - the JST PH 4 pin. These are the vertical style. You can use these with any of our JST PH 4 / STEMMA cables. They're not STEMMA QT compatible (those use the smaller JST SH). However, you can fit Seeed Grove connectors into JST PH which is pretty handy. We also carry these connectors in right angle...

This 4-wire cable is a little over 200mm / 7.8" long and fitted with JST-SH female 4-pin connectors on both ends. Compared with the chunkier JST-PH these are 1mm pitch instead of 2mm, but still have a nice latching feel, while being easy to insert and remove. This cable can be used with Qwiic or STEMMA QT boards, to easily connect sensors and drivers from one board to the other. The cables are made symmetrically so don't worry about...

This 4-wire cable is 50mm / 1.9" long and fitted with JST SH female 4-pin connectors on both ends. Compared with the chunkier JST PH these are 1mm pitch instead of 2mm, but still have a nice latching feel, while being easy to insert and remove. This cable can be used with Qwiic or STEMMA QT boards, to easily connect sensors and drivers from one board to the other. The cables are made symmetrically so don't worry about which side...

This cable will make it super easy to use our plug-and-play STEMMA QT boards with boards like Circuit Playground. On one end you get a Qwiic / STEMMA QT connector (technically known as a JST SH 4-pin plug)  into 4 individual wires with grippy alligator clips. We're carrying these to match up with our boards or breakouts with 'STEMMA QT' connectors on them. This cable has a JST SH 4-pin on one side and alligator clips on the...

Need directions to your nearest dry cleaner? Or maybe you need to send a hands-free email? Perhaps you just want to know what the weather's like in Timbuktu. Ask your little friend – the  Google AIY Voice Kit V2!  This updated version 2 AIY is a no-soldering-required kit, and now includes a Raspberry Pi Zero WH computer, and a pre-loaded microSD card - everything you need to create your very own smart home...

Extend and expand your Circuit Playground projects with a bolt on E-Ink Gizmo that lets you add a lovely tri-color e-Ink display in a sturdy and reliable fashion. This PCB looks just like a round E-Ink breakout but has permanently affixed M3 standoffs that act as mechanical and electrical connections. Chances are you've seen one of those new-fangled 'e-readers' like the Kindle or Nook. They have gigantic electronic paper...

This portable, minimalist solder wire stand is so handy, we had to carry it in the shop. It comes as a solid metal frame that's not too heavy and (best of all) a solder roll holder that keeps your wire from getting tangled! The roll holder can support up to 1kg of solder wire. Doesn't include a soldering iron or solder!  We also carry a solder stand that holds both your iron and solder roll.  

This 4-wire cable is a little over 150mm / 6" long and fitted with JST-SH female 4-pin connectors on one end and premium female headers on the other. Compared with the chunkier JST-PH these are 1mm pitch instead of 2mm, but still have a nice latching feel, while being easy to insert and remove. This cable can be used with Qwiic boards, to easily connect sensors and drivers to board with common 0.1" pin headers. When used with Qwiic the...

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...

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...