Sensors & Input
Explore our extensive range of sensor modules and input devices, stocked locally for fast delivery across Australia. Whether you're building a weather station, robot, or smart home project, you'll find temperature, humidity, gas, motion, distance, pressure, and biometric sensors to suit any application.
Perfect for Arduino and Raspberry Pi makers, STEM students, and professional developers alike. From IMUs and GPS modules to NFC readers and data loggers, everything you need to add real-world sensing to your next project is right here.
Vishay TSSP58038 IR Detector Module, 38kHz, Fixed Gain (3-Pack)
SKU: PL-2462 | Brand: Pololu
The Vishay TSSP58038 is a modulated IR receiver that is designed specifically for sensing applications instead of data communication for remote control. Unlike most similar-looking units, it has a fixed gain that mak...
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SparkFun Sound Detector (with Headers)
SKU: SF-SEN-14262 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Sound Detector is a small and very easy-to-use audio sensing board with three different outputs. The Sound Detector not only provides an audio output, but also a binary indication of the presence of sound...
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SparkFun Electret Microphone Breakout
SKU: SF-BOB-12758 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Electret Microphone Breakout pairs a small electret microphone capsule with a 60× OPA344 op-amp preamplifier, making it easy to detect sound with a microcontroller's analogue-to-digital converter. Pick up...
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Thermocouple Type-K Glass Braid Insulated Stainless Steel Tip
SKU: AF-3245 | Brand: Adafruit
Thermocouples are best used for measuring temperatures that can go above 100°C. This is a bare wires stainless-steel tip probe which can measure air or surface temperatures. Most inexpensive thermocouples have a vi...
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Waterproof DS18B20 Temperature Probe 0.5m with XH2.54mm Connector
SKU: LB-LS4690-50CM | Brand: Little Bird
A waterproof DS18B20 digital temperature probe with a 0.5m cable and XH2.54mm connector. Ideal for monitoring temperatures in wet or harsh environments including aquariums, hydroponics, brewing, and outdoor weather st...
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SparkFun Analog MEMS Microphone Breakout - SPH8878LR5H-1
SKU: SF-BOB-19389 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Analog MEMS Microphone Breakout makes it easy to work with the SPH8878LR5H-1 analog microphone from Knowles. This board features an OpAmp to bring the output of the microphone to a usable level, allowing ...
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Adafruit Feather nRF52840 Sense
SKU: AF-4516 | Brand: Adafruit
The Feather nRF52840 Sense takes the popular Feather nRF52840 Express and adds a suite of on-board environmental and motion sensors. It features Bluetooth Low Energy, native USB, CircuitPython and Arduino support, plu...
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SparkFun Level Translator Breakout - PCA9306
SKU: SF-BOB-15439 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun PCA9306 Level Translator Breakout provides dual bidirectional voltage-level translation for I2C and SMBus lines. It lets you safely connect devices operating at different logic levels — for example, a 3.3...
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SparkFun Qwiic Scale - NAU7802
SKU: SF-SEN-15242 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Qwiic Scale is a small breakout board for the NAU7802 that allows you to easily read load cells to accurately measure the weight of an object. By connecting the board to your microcontroller you will be a...
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Pulse Sensor Amped
SKU: PI-PSA001 | Brand: Pimoroni
The Pulse Sensor Amped is a plug-and-play heart-rate sensor for Arduino. It detects pulse by measuring changes in reflected light as blood pumps through your tissues, providing a real-time analogue signal that fluctua...
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QTR-1A Reflectance Sensor (2-Pack)
SKU: PL-2458 | Brand: Pololu
The QTR-1A reflectance sensor carries a single infrared LED and phototransistor pair in an inexpensive, tiny 0.5" x 0.3" module that can be mounted almost anywhere and is great for edge detection and line fo...
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SparkFun Optical Tracking Odometry Sensor - PAA5160E1 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-24904 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Qwiic Optical Tracking Odometry Sensor empowers you to elevate your robot's navigation capabilities with exceptional precision and streamlined integration. This compact, all-in-one sensor leverages the po...
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Rain/Steam Sensor
SKU: EC-SPM01021S | Brand: Elecrow
This water sensor works by having a series of exposed traces connected to ground and interlaced between the grounded traces are the sens traces. The sensor board has a demension of 5.0 x 4.0cm. There is also a on-boar...
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ESP32S Wifi Bluetooth Combo Module
SKU: EC-CCF32323S | Brand: Elecrow
The ESP32S is a WiFi and Bluetooth combo module built around the Espressif ESP32 dual-core processor. It supports 802.11 b/g/n WiFi with speeds up to 150 Mbps and Bluetooth v4.2 (both Classic and BLE), making it a ver...
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Adafruit MLX90640 24x32 IR Thermal Camera Breakout - 110 Degree FoV
SKU: AF-4469 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit MLX90640 IR Thermal Camera Breakout features a 24×32 array of infrared thermal sensors that returns 768 individual temperature readings over I2C. It's an affordable way to add heat-vision to any microcont...
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Reflective IR Sensor with 470 and 10K Resistors
SKU: AF-2349 | Brand: Adafruit
This Reflective IR Sensor is a simple plastic casing with two elements - an IR LED and an IR phototransistor. You can control the IR LED and turn it on to bounce IR off objects to determine their reflectivity. White &...
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Sharp GP2Y0D805Z0F Digital Distance Sensor 5cm
SKU: PL-1131 | Brand: Pololu
This small digital distance sensor detects objects between 0.5 cm and 5 cm (0.2″ and 2″) away. With its quick response time, small size, low current draw, and short minimum sensing distance, this sensor is a...
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Bare Conductive Touch Board
SKU: SF-DEV-13298 | Brand: SparkFun
The Touch Board from Bare Conductive is an easy-to-use Arduino@Heart board that gives you the ability to turn almost any material or surface into a sensor. Each Touch Board offers 12 electrodes for your a conductiv...
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Adafruit HDC3021 Precision Temperature & Humidity Sensor
SKU: AF-5989 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit HDC3021 is a high-precision I²C temperature and humidity sensor breakout featuring the TI HDC302x series chip. With typical humidity accuracy of ±0.5% RH (and just 0.19% long-term drift) and temperature a...
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SparkFun Pulsed Coherent Radar Sensor - Acconeer XM125 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-24540 | Brand: SparkFun
Forget ultrasonic and infrared sensors; the SparkFun Qwiic Pulsed Coherent Radar Sensor - Acconeer XM125 brings powerful 60 GHz radar technology to your projects. This sensor isn't limited to surface detection; it c...
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