Sensors

This straight bar load cell (sometimes called a strain gauge) can translate up to 10kg of pressure (force) into an electrical signal. Each load cel...

Light sensors are probably one of the most common sensors in life, they can be found in your laptop, phone or home lighting system. A light...

The TMP102 is an easy-to-use digital temperature sensor from Texas Instruments. The TMP102 breakout allows you to easily incorporate the digital te...

Raspberry Pi and Pimoroni Piano HAT have found a new musical companion! With the Pimoroni Drum HAT you can play music in Python, control softwar...

These easy-to-use ultrasonic rangefinders from Maxbotix work the same way as the EZ line that you know and love, but this new high-resolution serie...

These easy-to-use ultrasonic rangefinders from Maxbotix work the same way as the EZ line that you know and love, but this new high-resolution serie...

These easy-to-use ultrasonic rangefinders from Maxbotix work the same way as the EZ line that you know and love, but this new high-resolution serie...

It’s not the heat but the humidity that gets you, at least that’s what they say. Really, both are important, what you need is a sensor that comb...

The LSM303C is a 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DOF) inertial measurement unit (IMU) in a single package, specifically developed as an eCompass device. Due...

The LSM9DS1 is a versatile, motion-sensing system-in-a-chip. It houses a 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, and 3-axis magnetometer – nine deg...

This is a piezoresistive force sensor from Tekscan. The harder you press, the lower the sensor’s resistance. Pressing hard, the resistance changes ...

Atlas Scientific is on a mission to make high-quality sensors for environmental monitoring available to everyday hackers and makers. All of thei...

The SparkFun OpenScale is a simple-to-use, open source solution for measuring weight and temperature. It has the ability to read multiple types ...

This humidity and temperature sensor is Discontinued Now, We recommend LM35 Temperature Sensor For Arduino as a suitable replacement. The ...

Give your next sensor project a nose for gasses with the Adafruit MiCS-5524 Gas Sensor Breakout. This breakout makes it easy to use this nice senso...

Have you ever needed a cheap way to activate something from across the room? Infrared remotes are still the cheapest way to wirelessly control a de...

The FLiR Dev Kit includes a breakout as well as a Lepton® longwave infrared (LWIR) imager. With this kit you will be able to be able to bring FLiR’...

The MicroView is an amazingly small, Arduino compatible, OLED display module that everyone seems to be clamoring for. The SparkFun Inventor’s Kit f...

One of each of our favorite 13.56MHz RFID/NFC Classic 1K tags - 5 in total! Credit card size 1" diameter 'laundry' clear tag 1" diameter 'laund...

The ML8511 is a UV sensor, which is suitable for acquiring UV intensity indoors or outdoors. iT is equipped with an internal amplifier, which conv...

Ideal for monitoring conditions in your house, garage, and more, the Pimoroni Enviro pHAT packs 4 different sensors, letting you measure tempera...

These 1-wire digital temperature sensors are fairly precise (±0.5°C over much of the range) and can give up to 12 bits of precision from the onb...

We all dream of the perfect creation, of building something unique, of taking an idea and making it into reality. We are makers. It's what we d...

This sensor is essentially a reed switch, encased in an ABS plastic shell. Normally the reed is 'open' (no connection between the two wires). The o...