Many microchips these days are only available in a SMD (Surface Mount Device) packages. These chips have very tiny legs that are very close together making them super difficult to individually solder. The leg spacing and orientation also means that the chips can not be put in a breadboard for experimentation.
A breakout board is a basic printed circuit board PCB that has the surface mount chip soldered on and some or all of the pins connected to more easily accessible solder points or holes.
In addition the breakout board may include a few little passive components like resistors or capacitors to support the main microchip so you don't need to add them.
Code: SKU-000702
This simple breakout board makes it easy to use our LED tactile switches in a breadboard, or your next project. Note: Populate the board according to the polarity of the LED on the switch. The markings for the switch are irrelevant and can be reversed. Documents: Schematic Eagle Files GitHub More Details...
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Code: MCU-60151
The real time clock module provides seconds, minutes, hours, days, date, months, and year information. This real time clock module communicates with a microprocessor via an I2C interface and has a battery backup. ** Supplied without a battery for express air delivery ** More Details...
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Code: SKU-002160
Are you low on I/O? No problem! The SX1509 Breakout is a 16-channel GPIO expander with an I 2 C interface – that means with just two wires, your microcontroller can interface with 16 fully configurable digital input/output pins. More Details...
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Code: SKU-005893
Do you need to power a project with 12V and 5V from one power supply? The ATX power connector breakout board breaks out the standard 4-pin computer peripheral port when mated with an ATX connector for your 12V and 5V devices! Once you have chosen a power supply (whether it be an ATX power supply ... More Details...
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Code: SKU-001262
Odometers are extremely useful for cars, they tell you how far you have gone, wouldn’t it be nice if you were able to have a device that does the same for electrical current? The LTC4150 SparkFun Coulomb Counter Breakout is here to be your odometer for current. More Details...
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Code: SKU-005916
The SparkFun ATECC508A Cryptographic Co-processor Breakout allows you to easily add strong authentication security to your IoT node, edge device, or embedded system. It includes two Qwiic ports for plug and play functionality. More Details...
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Code: SKU-000533
This breakout board uses the LTC3588 Piezoelectric Energy Harvester from Linear Technologies. This board can be used not only for harvesting piezoelectric energy, but solar energy as well. There is a bridge rectified input for piezo elements (PZ1 and PZ2) and a direct input (VIN) for DC sources. More Details...
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Code: SKU-001918
This is an evaluation board for the Silicon Laboratories Si4703 FM tuner chip. Beyond enabling you to tune in to FM radio stations, the Si4703 is also capable of detecting and processing both Radio Data Service (RDS) and Radio Broadcast Data Service (RBDS) information. More Details...
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Code: SKU-003769
Introducing the 3.3V SparkFun FT231X Breakout board, complete with the full UART hardware handshake feature! The pin-out of this board matches the FTDI cable to work with official Arduino and cloned 3.3V Arduino boards. It can also be used for general serial applications. More Details...
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Code: SKU-003821
The SparkFun LP55231 LED Driver Breakout is a self-contained solution for developing and deploying the nine-channel I 2 C LED controller. Remarkably simple, the breakout is equipped primarily with just the LP55231 LED controller IC, plus three RGB LEDs. More Details...
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