The distributor is expecting interest from professionals as well as hobbyists and makers.

“The agreement provides increased access to both Mouser’s and SparkFun’s product ecosystems, enabling customers to shop for maker technology to support their projects,” said Mouser. “Mouser’s catalogue now incorporates over 500 SparkFun products, including Arduino Pro, RedBoard, and LilyPad tools, empowering customers at the industrial and enterprise level to utilise maker technology in their advanced projects.”

It singles out SparkFun’s Arduino Pro 328 and Arduino Pro Mini 328 as boards that allow engineers to prototype AVR microcontroller designs, and the Arduino integrated development environment (IDE).

Both boards are available in 5V 16MHz and 3.3V 8MHz versions  – the latter work with lower-voltage sensor shields without requiring a logic level converter.

“The boards include pin-out pads instead of headers, which allow engineers to place connectors or wires in any orientation,” said Mouser.

RedBoards have the standard Arduino form factor for prototyping, combining Uno’s Optiboot bootloader, FTDI’s FT231X USB-to-UART chip, and Arduino Uno R3 shield compatibility.

“Pro-makers using the RedBoard will find a wealth of online knowledge and resources for working with this board during the prototype phase, and with female headers, it also reduces the need for soldering,” said Mouser.

The LilyPad microcontroller board line, developed by Leah Buechley and SparkFun, have large contact pads that double as thread holes so that the boards can be stitched to fabric to prototype wearables and e-textiles.

Mouser’s SparkFun offerings are here.