# Cherry MX Switch Breakout

**Type:** Product page · **SKU:** BOB-13773 · **Brand:** [Sparkfun](https://core-electronics.com.au/brands/sparkfun-australia)
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Cherry MX Keyswitches are top-of-the-line mechanical keyboard switches. They’re satisfyingly “clicky”, reliable up to tens-of-millions of key presses, and a standard in gaming and programming keyboards across the globe. With the SparkFun Cherry MX Switch Breakout we have made the switches more easily adaptable to breadboard or perfboard-based projects. The Cherry MX Switch Breakout is a perfect prototyping tool for projects ranging from a single-key user-input to fully-custom 101-key keyboards.

## Pricing

- **Price:** $4.30 (inc GST) — $3.91 AUD, exc GST
- **Quantity discounts:** 5+ $3.79 (exc GST) · 25+ $3.71 (exc GST) · 100+ $3.55 (exc GST)

## Availability & dispatch

- Available with a lead time — expect dispatch between Aug 18 and Aug 24.

## Description

Cherry MX Keyswitches are top-of-the-line mechanical keyboard switches. They’re satisfyingly “clicky”, reliable up to tens-of-millions of key presses, and a standard in gaming and programming keyboards across the globe. With the SparkFun Cherry MX Switch Breakout Sparkfun have made the switches more easily adaptable to breadboard or perfboard-based projects. The Cherry MX Switch Breakout is a perfect prototyping tool for projects ranging from a single-key user-input to fully-custom 101-key keyboards.

In addition to breaking out the switch contacts to breadboard-compatible headers, the Cherry MX Switch Breakout also provides access to an optional switch-mounted LED. Plus, the pin break-outs are designed with keyboard matrix-ing in mind, so you can interconnect as many boards as you’d like into a row-column configuration, keeping the I/O-pin requirements as low as possible.

Note: If you are looking for a Cherry MX Switch to use with this breakout, we’ve got you covered! [CLICK HERE!](https://core-electronics.com.au/search/?q=13834)

[GET STARTED WITH THE CHERRY MX SWITCH GUIDE](https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/cherry-mx-switch-breakout-hookup-guide)

Features:

- Support for 3mm LED
- Footprint for LED current-limiting resistor
- Footprint for switch-isolating diode
- Chain-able in row/column matrices
- Designed to match standard key spacing and keyboard row offsets
 
Documents:

- [Schematic](https://core-electronics.com.au/attachments/localcontent/SparkFun-Cherry-MX-Switch-Breakout_477355a0b4f.pdf)
- [Eagle Files](https://core-electronics.com.au/attachments/localcontent/SparkFun-Cherry-MX-Switch-Breakout_74835e2db7f.zip)
- [Hookup Guide](https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/cherry-mx-switch-breakout-hookup-guide)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/sparkfun/Cherry_MX_Switch_Breakout)

## Images

- [Product image 1](https://core-electronics.com.au/media/catalog/product/b/o/bob-13773.jpg)