Force & Flex Sensors

SKU: SF-SEN-08713 | Brand: SparkFun

This is a piezoresistive force sensor from Tekscan. The harder you press, the lower the sensor’s resistance. Pressing lightly, the resistance changes from infinite to ~300k. The sensor itself is thin and flexible, but...

SKU: SF-SEN-11207 | Brand: SparkFun

This is a piezoresistive force sensor from Tekscan. The harder you press, the lower the sensor’s resistance. Pressing hard, the resistance changes from infinite to ~50k. The sensor itself is thin and flexible, but the...

SKU: SF-SEN-13261 | Brand: SparkFun

The SparkFun OpenScale is an open-source weight measurement board designed for load cells. Simply connect a four-wire or five-wire load cell of any capacity, plug into USB, open a serial terminal at 9,600 bps, and you...

SKU: AF-1917 | Brand: Adafruit

The Sensor Film Kit is a great new way to make custom-sized sensors out of force sensitive material. This kit includes one piece of black plastic sensor film (it's thicker and more durable than Velostat but simi...

SKU: SF-SEN-27314 | Brand: SparkFun

SpectraFlex is a flexible bend sensor for measuring angular deflection in research, industrial and personal electronics projects. As the sensor bends, its resistance changes, making it suitable for reading movement or...

SKU: SF-SEN-30282 | Brand: SparkFun

Build a connected weighing system without starting from low-level load cell code. OpenScale IoT is a wireless scale controller built around the ESP32-PICO-MINI, designed to turn a standard load cell setup into a confi...

SKU: DF-SEN0705 | Brand: DFRobot

This flexible tactile pressure sensor gives your project a compact 4 x 8 pressure matrix for mapping contact across a small surface. It integrates 32 independent sensing points in a 20 x 10mm active area, making it us...

SKU: DF-SEN0704 | Brand: DFRobot

This flexible thin-film array gives robots, wearables and HCI projects a compact way to sense where pressure is being applied. It integrates 36 independent sensing points into a 15 x 15mm active area, enabling real-ti...

SKU: DF-SEN0690 | Brand: DFRobot

Add a slim linear touch input to curved or space-constrained surfaces with this flexible ribbon-style potentiometer. At just 0.45mm thick, it can conform to wearables, curved dashboards, soft robotics and other builds...

SKU: DF-SEN0684 | Brand: DFRobot

This graphene-based circular flex force sensor is built for pressure and touch sensing in tougher environments than standard FSR-style sensors. It detects force across a 20g to 6kg range, with resistance changing line...

SKU: SF-SEN-27315 | Brand: SparkFun

The SpectraFlex Flex Sensor is a lightweight bend sensor for measuring flex and movement in research, industrial, wearable and maker projects. This 55mm version includes male pins, making it straightforward to connect...

SKU: AF-6379 | Brand: Adafruit

Measuring stretch and movement can be tricky, and this conductive rubber cord gives you a simple, hands-on way to do it. The cord is made from carbon-black impregnated rubber, with resistance that increases as it is p...

SKU: AF-1361 | Brand: Adafruit

This conductive material, also known as Velostat or Linqstat, is a handy addition to a wearable and sensor hacking toolkit. It is pressure-sensitive, so squeezing the sheet reduces its resistance, making it useful for...

SKU: PL-1696 | Brand: Pololu

This force-sensing resistor (FSR) from Interlink Electronics is a passive component that exhibits a decrease in resistance when there is an increase in the force applied to the 0.58″-diameter (1.5 cm) active area...

SKU: EC-SMO9200KG | Brand: Elecrow

A 200 kg straight bar load cell with a cantilever beam structure designed for both tensile and compressive force measurement. The low-profile, high-strength design features a dust-proof sealed construction for reliabl...

SKU: DF-SEN0047 | Brand: DFRobot

This is a force sensitive resistor with a round, 0.5" diameter, sensing area. This FSR will vary its resistance depending on how much pressure is being applied to the sensing area. The harder the force, the lower t...

SKU: DF-SEN0065 | Brand: DFRobot

This is a small force sensitive resistor. It has a 0.16" (4 mm) diameter active sensing area. This FSR will vary its resistance depending on how much pressure is being applied to the sensing area. The harder the fo...

SKU: SF-SEN-14282 | Brand: SparkFun

This S-Type load cell (sometimes called a strain gauge) can translate up to 200kg of pressure (force) into an electrical signal. Each load cell is able to measure the electrical resistance that changes in response and...

SKU: DF-SEN0066 | Brand: DFRobot

The FlexiForce is a thin, flexible piezoresistive force sensor that measures applied pressure from 0 to 100 lbs (440N). The harder you press on the circular sensing area, the lower the sensor's resistance — from effec...

SKU: LB-HS7762 | Brand: Little Bird

This flex sensor is a simple resistive bend sensor for turning physical movement into an analogue signal. Bend the strip and its resistance increases, giving you an easy way to sense flex without gears, linkages or ot...