RS already stocks a number of Adafruit products, and the new deal extends this to the entire line up of current Adafruit products, including its boards and accessories for Raspberry Pi and Arduino. These will be available to RS customers anywhere in the world.

“Adafruit is a well-respected provider of maker and hobbyist products aimed at a highly diverse range of ages and skills. This is important to our growing user base of students and innovators,” said RS product manager Rob Maycroft.”

According Adafruit founder Limor Fried – Ladyada – “This global agreement with RS will help us extend our reach to ensure that engineers, developers and makers across the world have fast and easy access to our electronics and more.”