We love playing with obscure materials that have a creepy-cool or magical quality. Sure, there's invisible ink, but have you ever used heat to make a painting disappear? We're carrying these  Thermochromic Pigments in a variety of colors. They change to a light/white color at 31 ° C or 88 ° F. Can't decide which color to get? Why not get a grab-bag of them all! How to get started on your next masterpiece?...

These brilliant solder-able standoffs will make your mechanical PCB mounting problems go away. They're super simple - round M3 standoffs that are coated with tin so you can solder them in an oven or with a very powerful soldering iron & some patience. All you have to do is put a 4.25mm hole with 6.2mm solder ring on your PCB, then this components snout goes into the PCB, and solder it in place. The part is incredibly strong and saves you...

These brilliant solder-able standoffs will make your mechanical PCB mounting problems go away. They're super simple - round M3 standoffs that are coated with tin so you can solder them in an oven or with a very powerful soldering iron & some patience. All you have to do is put a 4.25mm hole with 6.2mm solder ring on your PCB, then this components snout goes into the PCB, and solder it in place. The part is incredibly strong and saves you...

This panel mount cable will allow you to enclose a device that has a USB A port. Perfect for placing your project in a secure box. Both ends have standard USB A, an extension cord if you will. What's special about this, you ask? It's a  Snap-In Panel Mount Cable  - much easier than a classic panel mount cables, you don't need screws or drills for installation. Cut out a rectangular shape about 26.5mm...

Sometimes you feel low, and sometimes you feel high - cause your logic levels are opposite what they should be! But this easy-to-use inverter chip will flip that frown upside-down. This chip is spec'd to run at 5V but we've run it at 3V just fine. Power it by connecting up GND and VCC to your desired output logic level. High-level inputs can be as low as 2V and the output will be inverted on each of the 6 pairs of inverters. It's...

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....

We love playing with obscure materials that have a creepy-cool or magical quality. Sure, there's invisible ink, but have you ever used heat to make a painting disappear? We're carrying these  Thermochromic Pigments in a variety of colors. It changes to a light/white color at 31 ° C or 88 ° F. How to get started on your next masterpiece? Just add a little water then paint any surface. This pigment not meant for use...

We love playing with obscure materials that have a creepy-cool or magical quality. Sure, there's invisible ink, but have you ever used heat to make a painting disappear? We're carrying these  Thermochromic Pigments in a variety of colors. This pigment is a lovely Ada Pink . It changes to a light/white color at 31 ° C or 88 ° F. How to get started on your next masterpiece? Just add a little water then paint any...

We love playing with obscure materials that have a creepy-cool or magical quality. Sure, there's invisible ink, but have you ever used heat to make a painting disappear? We're carrying these  Thermochromic Pigments in a variety of colors. This pigment is a watery Blue . It changes to a light/white color at 31 ° C or 88 ° F. How to get started on your next masterpiece? Just add a little water then paint any surface....

We love playing with obscure materials that have a creepy-cool or magical quality. Sure, there's invisible ink, but have you ever used heat to make a painting disappear? We're carrying these  Thermochromic Pigments in a variety of colors. This pigment is a deep malachite Green . It changes to a light/white color at 31 ° C or 88 ° F. How to get started on your next masterpiece? Just add a little water then paint any...

We love playing with obscure materials that have a creepy-cool or magical quality. Sure, there's invisible ink, but have you ever used heat to make a painting disappear? We're carrying these  Thermochromic Pigments in a variety of colors. This pigment is a bright Yellow . It changes to a light/white color at 31 ° C or 88 ° F. How to get started on your next masterpiece? Just add a little water then paint any...

We love playing with obscure materials that have a creepy-cool or magical quality. Sure, there's invisible ink, but have you ever used heat to make a painting disappear? We're carrying these  Thermochromic Pigments in a variety of colors. This pigment is a citrus-y Orange . It changes to a light/white color at 31 ° C or 88 ° F. How to get started on your next masterpiece? Just add a little water then paint any...

We love playing with obscure materials that have a creepy-cool or magical quality. Sure, there's invisible ink, but have you ever used heat to make a painting disappear? We're carrying these  Thermochromic Pigments in a variety of colors. This pigment is a nice crimson Red . It changes to a light/white color at 31 ° C or 88 ° F. How to get started on your next masterpiece? Just add a little water then paint any...

We love playing with obscure materials that have a creepy-cool or magical quality. Sure, there's invisible ink, but have you ever used heat to make a painting disappear? We're carrying these  Thermochromic Pigments in a variety of colors. This pigment is always-classy Adafruit Black . It changes to a light/white color at 31 ° C or 88 ° F. How to get started on your next masterpiece? Just add a little water then...

You've seen all the cool projects on Adafruit - building and making amazing electronics. You want to get started making, but... you don't know how to code! Now what, just give up? Never! You, yes you can learn how to code with the great tutorials from Codecademy. Best of all, you can learn to code while learning electronics at the same time! We’ve partnered with our friends at Codecademy to create a brand new course that will teach...

Add some bi-stability to your life with an Adafruit EInk Breakout Friend - your fun pal who's happy to lend a hand when you want to work with EInk/E-Paper displays. Luckily for us, just about every small-medium size EInk display made these days has a standard 24-pin connection. This breakout will add all the power supply support circuitry and level shifting so you can attach your favorite display (up to tri-color 4.2") and wire it up to...

Whether they're rings, strips, panels, matrices, we love glowing up projects with LEDs. And here's an interesting new board! Is it half of an electronic Oreo cookie? Nay! It's a NeoPixel Triple-Ring Board with Thru-Hole LEDs . This board is dotted with 44 adorable bubble-shaped lightly-diffused 5mm NeoPixel LEDs. Use just like any NeoPixel ring or strip, power with 5V and send it WS2812/NeoPixel signals. The signal pads on the...

Are you ready? Really ready? Cause here comes the Adafruit Grand Central featuring the Microchip ATSAMD51 . This dev board is so big, it's not named after a Metro train, it's a whole freakin' station ! This board is like a freight train, with its 120MHz Cortex M4 with floating point support. Your code will zig and zag and zoom, and with a bunch of extra peripherals for support, this will for sure be your favorite new chipset. The...

Give your plain ol' microcontroller project a lift with the Adafruit AirLift - a breakout board that lets you use the powerful ESP32 as a WiFi co-processor. You probably have your favorite microcontroller (like the ATmega328 or ATSAMD51), awesome peripherals and lots of libraries. But it doesn't have WiFi built in! So lets give that chip a best friend, the ESP32. This chip can handle all the heavy lifting of connecting to a WiFi network...

As technology changes and adapts, so does Adafruit, and speaking of adapting , this adapter  has a USB A plug 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 cables, USB C has no up or down orientation. And who among us has inserted USB A correctly the first time? Works great with...

"HackerBoxes deliver interesting and exciting gear for exploring and learning electronics and computer technology.  HackerBox Hackers are electronics hobbyists, makers, hackers, and computer enthusiasts. We are the dreamers of dreams. We connect through social media to create a community of experience, support, and new ideas." We're pleased as punch to carry HackerBox #0041 - CircuitPython ! HackerBox #0041 is a super fun and...

Easy e-paper finally comes to microcontrollers, with this breakout that's designed to make it a breeze to add a monochromatic 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...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these USB adapters are right up your alley! Making custom USB cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our USB adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a  USB Right Angle Micro B Plug Up  only. (We also have the 'down' version which is the opposite bend, and 'straight'...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these USB adapters are right up your alley! Making custom USB cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our USB adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a  Right Angle USB Micro B Plug Down  only. (We also have the matching 'up' version which is the opposite bend, as well as...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these USB adapters are right up your alley! Making custom USB cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our USB adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a Straight USB Type A Female Socket only. Ribbon cable and other adapter not included! Check out all of the options we have in the shop to craft your...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these USB adapters are right up your alley! Making custom USB cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our USB adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a Straight USB Type A Male Plug only. Ribbon cable and other adapter not included! Check out all of the options we have in the shop to craft your very...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these USB adapters are right up your alley! Making custom USB cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our USB adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a Straight USB Type C Male Plug only. Ribbon cable and other adapter not included! Check out all of the options we have in the shop to craft your very...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these USB adapters are right up your alley! Making custom USB cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our USB adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a Straight USB Micro B Jack only. Ribbon cable and other adapter not included! Check out all of the options we have in the shop to craft your very own...

If you love DIY cable-rigging, then these USB adapters are right up your alley! Making custom USB cables has never been easier. Just grab one of our ribbon cables, then swap and switch any of our USB adapters on each end using the flex cable clips. There are options a-plenty! This version is a Straight USB Micro B Male Plug only. Ribbon cable and other adapter not included! Check out all of the options we have in the shop to craft your very...

Easy e-paper finally comes to microcontrollers, with this breakout that's designed to make it a breeze to add a 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. It really...

Easy e-paper finally comes to your Feather, with this breakout that's designed to make it a breeze to add a monochrome 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....

Reach out beyond your desk - to the stars and beyond - with PyPortal ! This ADABOX features a new, easy-to-use IoT device that allows you to customize and create your very own "Internet of Things" portal. We take CircuitPython to the max, pairing a SAMD51 chip with a 3.2" color TFT touchscreen and secure Wi-Fi co-processor.  With the open-source Python-powered PyPortal, you can fetch and display anything in the world:...

Vishay has a lot of light sensors out there, and this is a nice simple lux sensor that's easy to add to any microcontoller. Most light sensors just give you a number for brighter/darker ambient lighting. The VEML7700 makes your life easier by calculating the lux, which is an SI unit for light. You'll get more consistent readings between multiple sensors because you aren't dealing with some unit-less values. The sensor has 16-bit...

Ever wanted to dabble in face and/or speech recognition? Espressif's ESP-EYE is a miniature ESP32-based development board that combines a digital microphone, ESP32 (of course) with 8 MB PSRAM and 4 MB flash, and a 2 megapixel camera. There's a few buttons and LEDs as well for basic control and configuration. Unlike some boards, this codebase does not require internet connectivity - you don't have to send video or audio data to...

This panel mount cable will allow you to enclose a device that has a USB A port, and also converts it to a modern USB C connector at the same time. Perfect for placing your project in a secure box! One end is a USB Type A plug connector, and other is a USB C socket with special over-molding. The socket side has two mounting 'ears' with M3 screws installed 20mm apart. Can be used with box walls up to 0.25" wide. If you have...

This panel mount cable will allow you to enclose a device that has a USB Micro B port, and also converts it to a modern USB C connector at the same time. Perfect for placing your project in a secure box! One end is a USB Micro B plug connector, and other is a USB C socket with special over-molding. The socket side has two mounting 'ears' with M3 screws installed 20mm apart. Can be used with box walls up to 0.25" wide. If...

This panel mount cable will allow you to enclose a device that has an HDMI port. Perfect for placing your project in a secure box. Both ends have HDMI connectors, an extension cord if you will. What's special about this, you ask? It's a Snap-In Panel Mount Cable - much easier than a classic panel mount cables, you don't need screws or drills for installation. Cut out a rectangular shape about 21.8mm (0.86") by...

This panel mount cable will allow you to enclose a device that has a USB A port, and also converts it to a modern USB C connector at the same time. Perfect for placing your project in a secure box! One end is a USB A plug connector, and other is a USB C socket with special over-molding. What's special about this, you ask? It's a Snap-In Panel Mount Cable - much easier than a classic panel mount cables, you don't need screws...

This cable is super-fashionable with a woven pink and purple Blinka-like pattern! First let's talk about the cover and over-molding. We got these in custom colors, and if you  have  to have visible cables, then you might as well have the nicest fabric-bound cable with a eye-catching python pattern. Perfect for connecting to your PyPortal, Circuit Playground Express, Raspberry Pi, CircuitPython board among...

Want a powerful 1GHz AM3358 powered Linux single board that's ultra-tiny and open-source? PocketBeagle  offers a wealth of computer power in a small footprint (pawprint?). This board is just like the BeagleBone Black but small enough to fit in your wallet. It has a fully-integrated chip that combines the processor and RAM all on one chip, so it's super small. Despite the compact shape, there are 72 total breakout pads, a...

Upgrade any Feather board with motion and precision temperature sensing, with this all-in-one sensing FeatherWing. It sports two fantastic sensors from Analog Devices: an ADXL343 triple-axis accelerometer and an ADT7410 precision temperature sensor. Both sensors are connected over the shared I2C bus, so you can use it with any and all Feathers! We also break out the interrupt pins and address-selection jumpers in case you want multiple Feathers...

If you need to add a panel-mount connection for HDMI, but don't have the time or ability to cut a custom oval or square hole, this HDMI Round Panel Mount Plug is the easiest and fastest way to panel-ify your existing HDMI kit. It's about 30mm in diameter, so you can drill a hole in your wood, plastic or metal with a common hole-saw or bit, no special shapes or filing required. Un-screw the plastic nut, insert the plug and re-attach....

If you need to add a panel-mount connection for Ethernet, but don't have the time or ability to cut a custom oval or square hole, this RJ-45 Ethernet Round Panel Mount Plug is the easiest and fastest way to panel-ify your existing Ethernet kit. It's about 30mm in diameter, so you can drill a hole in your wood, plastic or metal with a common hole-saw or bit, no special shapes or filing required. Un-screw the plastic nut, insert the plug...

This cable is not only super-fashionable, with a woven pink and purple Blinka-like pattern, it's also fully reversible! That's right, you will save seconds a day by not having to flip the cable around. First let's talk about the cover and over-molding. We got these in custom colors, and if you have to have visible cables, then you might as well have the nicest fabric-bound cable with a eye-catching python pattern. Perfect for...

Coming soon! Sign up to be notified when it's in stock! 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. This version is 4-H themed, for use by anyone, but comes in a special green color and with the 4-H emblem on the back,...

Squeeeeze down your next ESP32 project to its bare-bones essential with the Adafruit HUZZAH32 Breakout . This breakout is basically the 'big sister' of our HUZZAH 8266, but instead of an ESP8266 it has the '32! We've pared down our popular Feather ESP32, removing the battery charger and USB-serial converter. You just get a regulator, some protection diodes, two buttons and an LED. For some projects, where price and size are at a...

The MINI.MU is MI.MU's make-it-yourself musical glove for young engineers. It's a collaboration between Grammy Award-winning musician-goddess Imogen Heap, creative technologist and children’s author Helen Leigh, Pimoroni, and the MI.MU glove team. This kit uses the micro:bit to create a friendly, simple and fun crafty code experience. These gloves are a simplified, kid-friendly version of Imogen's more...

In the beginning there was Inky pHAT, a triumvirate of eInk bonnets from Pimoroni. And now, Pimoroni has upped their electronic paper displays to  4.2"  glorious inches! Say hellooo to  Inky wHAT ! You get 5x the number of pixels (400x300!) to use as an e-reader or maybe a weather display / calendar. Everything comes fully-assembled, so there's no soldering required! The display is securely...

In the beginning there was Inky pHAT, a triumvirate of eInk bonnets from Pimoroni. And now, Pimoroni has upped their electronic paper displays to 4.2" glorious inches! Say hellooo to Inky wHAT ! You get 5x the number of pixels (400x300!) to use as an e-reader or maybe a weather display / calendar. Everything comes fully-assembled, so there's no soldering required! The display is securely plonked down to the Inky wHAT...

PyPortal is our easy-to-use IoT device that allows you to create all the things for the “Internet of Things” in minutes. Create little pocket universes of joy that connect to something good. And now that you've made a cool internet-connected project with the Adafruit PyPortal, you will want to show it off. Instead of having it lie on a table or taped to a box, try this gracious and elegant enclosure. Prevent...

You won't be able to look away from the mesmerizing patterns created by this  Adafruit CharliePlex LED Matrix Display Bonnet .  This 16x8 LED display can be placed atop any Raspberry Pi computer with a 2x20 connector, for a beautiful, bright grid of 128 charlieplexed LEDs. It even comes with a built-in charlieplex driver that is run over I2C. We carry these Bonnets in a few vivid colors -  this is the yellow LED...

You won't be able to look away from the mesmerizing patterns created by this Adafruit CharliePlex LED Matrix Display Bonnet .  This 16x8 LED display can be placed atop any Raspberry Pi computer with a 2x20 connector, for a beautiful, bright grid of 128 charlieplexed LEDs. It even comes with a built-in charlieplex driver that is run over I2C. We carry these Bonnets in a few vivid colors - this is the cool white LED matrix. What is...

Glow up for keyboards! Pimoroni's Keybow is a solderless mini mechanical keyboard with super satisfying high-quality clicky switches. The per-key RGB lighting shines brilliantly through the clear DSA-profile key caps, so you get all the incredible LED colors while clickety-clacking away at your coding, hotkey-ing, etc!  Keybow is an easy-to-build, solderless, DIY mini mechanical keyboard. It's Raspberry Pi-powered, with twelve...

You have a Circuit Playground Express, and want to connect some wires to it for adding LEDs or sensors or speakers? You can use our nice alligator clips, but they are a little bulky. If you aren't quite ready to solder to your Playground, try this simple but effective bolt kit. In this kit comes: 6 x M3 5mm machine steel screws6 x M3 zinc-plated steel hex nuts  Using them is simple! Put the screw through the large alligator pads on your...

Here at Adafruit we love discovering new and exotic glowing things. Like moths to the flame, we were intrigued by these fresh  Flexible Silicone Neon-Like LED Strips ! They look a lot like neon, but without the need for expensive transformers, glass tubing or inert gasses. Super flexible and bendy, they feature a single-color non-addressable LED strip with a solid chunk of translucent silicone rubber as a diffuser. They look incredible, and...

The Raspberry Pi is an amazing single board computer - and one of the best parts is that GPIO connector! 40 pins of digital goodness you can twiddle to control LEDs, sensors, buttons, radios, displays - just about any device you can imagine. This Adafruit GPIO Expander Bonnet will give you even more digital deliciousness - 16 more digital input/output pins are yours for any desire you have. The outputs are grouped into two 16-pin connectors that...

PyPortal , our easy-to-use IoT device that allows you to create all the things for the “Internet of Things” in minutes. Make custom touch screen interface GUIs, all open-source, and Python-powered using tinyJSON / APIs to get news, stock, weather, cat photos, and more – all over Wi-Fi with the latest technologies. Create little pocket universes of joy that connect to something good. Rotate it 90 degrees, it’s a...

Element14's Pi Desktop Enclosure Kit gives you the gear to convert your Raspberry Pi into a mini desktop computer! The sleek, minimal enclosure is designed with an expansion controller that plugs into your Pi to give it all the extras you've been missing. It comes intelligent on/off power switch and RTC. It even has an mSATA SSD socket and controller so you can plug in a large storage drive to create a media center or network storage...

Oh say can you see By the knob's early light... Sorry - we thought that was clever.  And while it wasn't really, this potentiometer definitely is! We've seen these in miniature synthesizers. They're bigger than a trim-pot, but smaller than a chunky potentiometer. Best of all no knob required! These have a knurled plastic grip with a white stripe marking. Use it as-is, for a low cost adjustment Comes as a standard 10K ohm...

Analog Devices has followed up on their popular classic, the ADXL345, with this near-drop-in-replacement, the ADXL343. Like the original, this is a triple-axis accelerometer with digital I2C and SPI interface breakout. It has a wide sensitivity range and high resolution, operating with an 10 or 13-bit internal ADC. Built-in motion detection features make tap, double-tap, activity, inactivity, and free-fall detection trivial. There's two...

Easy e-paper finally comes to your Feather, 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. It...

Throw out all those Mini and Micro B USB cables you have in a plastic bin - the next generation of USB connectors is here with USB C ! You will start to see these connectors pop up on all sorts of devices, as the industry moves from micro B or lightening to the new standard. Well, at least until the next standard comes out USB C features a symmetric/reversible connector, more data pins and higher current output capability. But, for most...

You won't be able to look away from the mesmerizing patterns created by this Adafruit CharliePlex LED Matrix Display Bonnet .  This 16x8 LED display can be placed atop any Raspberry Pi computer with a 2x20 connector, for a beautiful, bright grid of 128 charlieplexed LEDs. It even comes with a built-in charlieplex driver that is run over I2C. We carry these Bonnets in a few vivid colors  What is particularly nice about this Wing is...

You won't be able to look away from the mesmerizing patterns created by this Adafruit CharliePlex LED Matrix Display Bonnet .  This 16x8 LED display can be placed atop any Raspberry Pi computer with a 2x20 connector, for a beautiful, bright grid of 128 charlieplexed LEDs. It even comes with a built-in charlieplex driver that is run over I2C. We carry these Bonnets in a few vivid colors - this is the warm white LED matrix. What is...

You won't be able to look away from the mesmerizing patterns created by this Adafruit CharliePlex LED Matrix Display Bonnet .  This 16x8 LED display can be placed atop any Raspberry Pi computer with a 2x20 connector, for a beautiful, bright grid of 128 charlieplexed LEDs. It even comes with a built-in charlieplex driver that is run over I2C. We carry these Bonnets in a few vivid colors - this is the green LED matrix. What is...

You won't be able to look away from the mesmerizing patterns created by this Adafruit CharliePlex LED Matrix Display Bonnet .  This 16x8 LED display can be placed atop any Raspberry Pi computer with a 2x20 connector, for a beautiful, bright grid of 128 charlieplexed LEDs. It even comes with a built-in charlieplex driver that is run over I2C. We carry these Bonnets in a few vivid colors - this is the blue LED matrix. What is particularly...

When your Raspberry Pi project requires multiple power supplies, why not check out the new Zero2Go Omini ? This multi-input power supply buck-boost converter fits on top of a Raspberry Pi (any sort!) and lets you power it with up to 3 different input ports, so you can keep powered no matter what your battery or power plug situation. Note that although it has the name 'Zero' it can be used by any Raspberry Pi computer with a 2x20...

One can never have enough socks, or USB ports. Add some more USB capability to your Raspberry Pi Zero, or any other single-board computer with the  Zero4U ! This is a 4-port USB 2.0 hub, almost identical to this one, but without the ferrite bead, standoffs or pogo pins . This might be a preferable format if you want to mount it on the bottom or side-by-side or with another HAT below it. It's also great as-is as a small USB...