Development Boards / Circuit Playground

Stop breadboarding and soldering - start making immediately! Adafruit's Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science with the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, or even use Arduino IDE.

Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for MakeCode, CircuitPython, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clips, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound.

Circuit Playground Classic is the original classic Circuit Playground, which is not as powerful or featured. It is designed to be used with Arduino IDE and code.org CS Discoveries only. It does not run MakeCode or CircuitPython, and does not have Infrared support (which is why we made the Express!)

A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.

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Circuit Playground Express

Product ID: 3333

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...

$24.95

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Circuit Playground Express - Base Kit

Product ID: 3517

It's the Circuit Playground Express Base Kit! It provides the few things you'll need to get started with the new Circuit Playground Express. This version of Circuit Playground is super powered, and will work with Microsoft MakeCode, CircuitPython, code.org CS Discoveries or Arduino IDE. You can use Circuit Playground Express with code.org CS Discoveries, but we...

$29.95

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USB cable - USB A to Micro-B - 3 foot long

Product ID: 592

This here is your standard A to micro-B USB cable, for USB 1.1 or 2.0. Perfect for connecting a PC to your Metro, Feather, Raspberry Pi or other dev-board or microcontroller Approximately 3 feet / 1 meter long

$2.95

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3 x AAA Battery Holder with On/Off Switch and 2-Pin JST

Product ID: 727

This battery holder connects 3 AAA batteries together in series for powering all kinds of projects. We spec'd these out because the box is slim, and 3 AAA's add up to about 3.3-4.5V, a very similar range to Lithium Ion/polymer (Li-Ion) batteries and have an on-off switch. That makes them ideal for use with 3.3V projects that have a 2-pin JST connector meant for one...

$1.95

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Bundle of Small Alligator Clip Test Leads

Small Alligator Clip Test Lead (set of 12)

Product ID: 1008

Connect this to that without soldering using these handy mini alligator clip test leads. 15" cables with alligator clip on each end, color coded. You get 12 pieces in 6 colors. Strong and grippy, these always come in handy! We often use these in conjunction with a multimeter so we don't have to hold the probes in place. Compared to our Large alligator clip set, these...

$3.95

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Adafruit Circuit Playground Express or Bluefruit Enclosure

Product ID: 3915

We've got nice cases for many of our beloved boards, but the Circuit Playground Express and Circuit Playground Bluefruit has been left out of couture enclosure game. Enter Ada-friend Mike Doell to the rescue! This minimal but elegant acrylic case will turn your board into an electronic snowflake. The enclosure is designed to snap together securely with no tools...

$4.95

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Circuit Playground Bluefruit - Bluetooth Low Energy

Product ID: 4333

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...

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Short Wire Alligator Clip Test Lead (set of 12)

Product ID: 1592

Connect this to that without soldering using these handy mini alligator clip test leads. Approximately 4.5" overall cables with alligator clip on each end, color coded. You get 12 pieces in 6 colors. Strong and grippy, these always come in handy! We often use these in conjunction with a multimeter so we don't have to hold the probes in place. Compared to our Large...

$3.95

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Small Alligator Clip to Male Jumper Wire Bundle - 6 Pieces

Product ID: 3448

When working with unusual non-header-friendly surfaces, these handy cables will be your best friends! No longer will you have long, cumbersome strands of alligator clips. These compact jumper cables have a premium male header on one end and a grippy mini alligator clip on the other. Grab onto your Flora, Circuit Playground, micro:bit, Gemma, or even a banana, and...

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Bundle of Small Alligator Clip to Male Jumper Wires

Small Alligator Clip to Male Jumper Wire Bundle - 12 Pieces

Product ID: 3255

For bread-boarding with unusual non-header-friendly surfaces, these cables will be your best friends! No longer will you have long strands of alligator clips that are grabbing little wires. These compact jumper cables have a premium male header on one end, and a grippy mini alligator clip on the other. Grab onto your Flora, Circuit Playground, micro:bit, Gemma, or...

$7.95

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Code.org Circuit Playground Individual Kit Pack

Product ID: 3795

The Code.org CS Discoveries course is a yearlong curriculum for teaching computer science, and there's even a physical computing unit! For large classrooms and workshops, we recommend our Code.org Classroom pack. But, if you need to supplement your Classroom pack or are learning on your own, we now have a mini-kit - with just the essentials for a single student or...

$29.95

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Bolt-On Kit for Circuit Playground, micro:bit, Flora or Gemma

Product ID: 4103

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 screws. 6 x M3 zinc-plated steel hex nuts...

$1.50

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Adafruit CRICKIT for Circuit Playground Express

Product ID: 3093

Sometimes we wonder if robotics engineers ever watch movies. If they did, they'd know that making robots into servants always ends up in a robot rebellion. Why even go down that path? Here at Adafruit, we believe in making robots our friends! So if you find yourself wanting a companion, consider the robot. They're fun to program, and you can get creative with...

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Circuit Playground TFT Gizmo - Bolt-on Display + Audio Amplifier - JST PH 2mm

Product ID: 4367

Extend and expand your Circuit Playground projects with a bolt on TFT Gizmo that lets you add a lovely color display in a sturdy and reliable fashion. This PCB looks just like a round TFT breakout but has permanently affixed M3 standoffs that act as mechanical and electrical connections. Once attached you'll get a 1.54" 240x240 IPS display with backlight control, two...

$19.95

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Group of Small Alligator Clip to Female Jumper Wires

Small Alligator Clip to Female Jumper Wire Bundle - 6 Pieces

Product ID: 4304

When working with unusual non-header-friendly surfaces, these handy cables will be your best friends! No longer will you have long, cumbersome strands of alligator clips. These compact jumper cables have a premium female header on one end and a grippy mini alligator clip on the other. Grab onto your Circuit Playground, micro:bit, CRICKIT, Gemma, or even a banana, and...

$3.95

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Small Alligator Clip Test Lead (set of 6)

Product ID: 4100

Connect this to that without soldering using these small alligator clip test leads. 18" long cables with color-coded alligator clips on both ends. You get 6 pieces in 6 unique colors. Strong and grippy, these always come in handy! We often use these in conjunction with a multimeter so we don't have to hold the probes in place. Compared to our large alligator clip...

$2.95

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Bundle of Large Alligator Clip Test Leads

Large Alligator Clip Test Lead (set of 10)

Product ID: 321

Connect this to that without soldering using these handy alligator clip test leads. 20" cables with alligator clip on each end, color coded. You get 10 pieces in 5 colors. Strong and grippy, these always come in handy! We often use these in conjunction with a multimeter so we don't have to hold the probes in place. Compared to our small alligator clip set, these...

$4.95

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Adafruit Circuit Playground Bluefruit Express Starter Kit - ADABOX014 Essentials

Product ID: 4504

If you missed out on ADABOX 014, its not too late for you to pick up the parts necessary to build many of the projects! This kit pack doesn't come with tissue paper or the nifty extras, but it does have all the electronic goodies you need This project pack features the Circuit Playground Bluefruit with Bluetooth LE support so now we can make our projects wireless!...

$64.95

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Circuit Playground Proto Gizmo - Bolt-on Perma-Proto

Product ID: 4320

Extend and expand your Circuit Playground projects with a bolt-on Perma-Proto that lets you connect solderable circuits in a sturdy and reliable fashion. This PCB looks just like a solderless breadboard but has permanently affixed M3 standoffs that act as mechanical and electrical connections. Solder to the gold-plated traces to create your custom invention! Each pad...

$7.95

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Circuit Playground Bolt-On Kit

Product ID: 3816

You have a Circuit Playground Express, but you need to mount it to your charming cardboard robot friend, eh? Not so easy if you don't have a set of standoffs! In this kit comes: 6 x M3 12mm brass hexagonal standoffs. 12 x M3 5mm machine screws. If you bought a Crickit for Circuit Playground, this kit is already included - we're offering it in case you've designed...

$3.95

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Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express - by Anne Barela

Product ID: 3944

Make: Getting Started with Circuit Playground Express is written by our friend, Anne Barela, author of G.S.W. Adafruit Trinket. Anne is an engineer and Maker with the Adafruit team. We also have a great bundle that includes everything you need to follow along with the projects in the book, no soldering required! This book gives you the low-down on microcontrollers by...

$19.45

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Circuit Playground Express Advanced Pack

Product ID: 2769

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. You can now start your journey with Microsoft MakeCode block-based or Javascript programming. If...

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Circuit Playground Classic

Product ID: 3000

Would you like to learn electronics, with an all-in-one board that has sensors and LEDs built in? Circuit Playground is here - and it's the best way to practice programming on real hardware with no soldering or sewing required! This is the Classic version of Circuit Playground, which comes with an ATmega32u4. It's designed to be used with Arduino IDE and code.org CS...

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Code.org Circuit Playground Express Educators' Pack

Product ID: 3399

For many years, instructors and teachers have asked us to come up with a better way to teach programming and electronics. We have worked on Circuit Playground Express for over a year to come up with a board that is powerful, beautiful, fun, and perfect for teaching Code.org CS Discoveries Circuit Playground Express is a perfect introduction to electronics and...

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Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express book along with a collection of electronic parts included in kit.

Getting Started with Circuit Playground Express Book Bundle

Product ID: 3977

The bestselling book Getting Started with Circuit Playground Express now comes with a full pack of parts so you can hit the ground running! Getting Started with Circuit Playground Express is written by our friend, Anne Barela, author of G.S.W. Adafruit Trinket. Anne is a life-long engineer, Maker, writer, and has joined the Adafruit team to write guides and develop...

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Bundle of Small Alligator Clip Test Lead - set of 10

Small Alligator Clip Test Lead (Set of 18)

Product ID: 3447

Connect this to that without soldering using these mini alligator clip test leads. 15" cables with alligator clip on each end in six colors. Strong and grippy, these always come in handy! We often use these in conjunction with a multimeter, so we don't have to hold the probes in place, or with wearable projects, or for quick prototyping with big-pad circuit boards...

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Bots! by Kathy Ceceri - Book and Parts Bundle

Product ID: 4362

We are very excited to carry a new book by Adafruit Learning System author and maker Kathy Ceceri! Robots are everywhere! They vacuum our houses, work in our factories, help us learn at school, and play with us at home. They sample rocks from other planets, survey disaster zones from the air, and bring back images from the bottom of the ocean. Explore the roles...

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Circuit Playground Express - Black Girls CODE

Product ID: 2599

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Colorful Clips - Tropical Alligator Test Clip Leads - 10 Pieces - 13" long

Product ID: 5152

Designed by Making & Hacking extraordinaire Lee Cyborg, these colorful clips are a nice switch-up from the standard colors. Connect this to that without soldering using these Hot GitHub Summer alligator clip test leads that look perfect for a beachfront environmental-sensing project. 13" long cables with alligator clips on each end, color-coded. You get 10 pieces...

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Learn CircuitPython with 1 Month Subscription to Codecademy Pro

Product ID: 4220

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...

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AdaBox014 - Circuit Playground Bluefruit - Merry ADABOXmas!

Product ID: 4371

It’s beginning to look like Ada-BOX-mas Everywhere you go Let all your ideas flow, for projects you want to show With buttons and LEDs all aglow Exactly two years ago, Adafruit released ADABOX 006 featuring the Circuit Playground Express and CircuitPython. It was a revolution in how to program electronics, and our first attempt at seeing how ADABOXians would...

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Circuit Playground Express for 4-H

Product ID: 4180

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...

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Circuit Playground 152x152 Tri-Color E-Ink Gizmo - E-Ink Display + Audio Amplifier

Product ID: 4428

Discontinued - you can grab Circuit Playground 200x200 Tri-Color E-Ink Gizmo instead! 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...

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4-H Circuit Playground Express - Base Kit

Product ID: 4263

Discontinued - you can grab Circuit Playground Express - Base Kit instead! We are super pleased to enjoy a partnership with an engaging, empowering foundation like 4-H. Here at Adafruit we drive ourselves to "be excellent", and 4-H's motto is "to make the best better." Though typically thought of as an agriculturally focused organization, 4-H today focuses on...

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Circuit Playground 200x200 Tri-Color E-Ink Gizmo - E-Ink Display + Audio Amplifier

Product ID: 4869

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...

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AdaBox006 – CircuitPython

Product ID: 3697

AdaBox006 – CircuitPython is the perfect gift for folks who are just getting started in the world of DIY electronics. It's an excellent addition to our family of DIY projects, plus it's a solderless pack. This is also a great way to test the waters of AdaBox before committing to a subscription. Please note! This is NOT the subscription version of AdaBox! This...

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Adaptive Design's Morse Code for GBoard Hardware Interface Pack

Product ID: 3937

At the time of its invention Morse code definitively changed the way we communicate. Historically it's been used in nautical navigation to aviation to radio, but its easy to learn and the universal nature makes it a great data entry method for folks who use Assistive Technology! GBoard is an alternate keyboard for Android devices that lets you type using Morse code....

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