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.
Analog CO/Combustible Gas Sensor(MQ9)
SKU: EC-SES90101S | Brand: Elecrow
The MQ-9 is an analog gas sensor module with high sensitivity to carbon monoxide (CO), methane, propane, and LPG. It uses an SnO2 sensing element that changes conductivity in the presence of target gases, making it su...
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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 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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5V IR Photoelectric Switch (4m)
SKU: DF-SEN0523 | Brand: DFRobot
This IR break-beam photoelectric switch detects objects by sending an invisible infrared beam from an emitter to a receiver. When a non-transparent object passes between the two and breaks the beam, the receiver outpu...
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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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Mini Analog Thumbstick - Similar to Joycon Style
SKU: AF-5628 | Brand: Adafruit
A compact, self-centering analogue thumbstick with a feel and size similar to Nintendo Joy-Con joysticks. It uses two 10kΩ potentiometers (one for each axis) to provide proportional X/Y analogue output, plus a centre-...
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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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RFID Reader Module
SKU: EC-CRF16500R | Brand: Elecrow
This product has been used in building intercom and access control products for many years, it has high stability and strongest anti-interference ability. The ATMEGA8 of this module is a high- performance AVR MCU of A...
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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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Rotary Encoder - Illuminated (RGB)
SKU: SF-COM-15141 | Brand: SparkFun
Rotary encoders can be used similarly to potentiometers. The difference being that an encoder has full rotation without limits (It just goes round and round). They output gray code so that you can tell how much and in...
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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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SparkFun Ambient Light Sensor - VEML7700 (Qwiic) - SparkFun Electronics
SKU: SF-SEN-29211 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun VEML7700 Qwiic Ambient Light Sensor provides accurate 16-bit light readings from 0 to 167,000 lux via I2C. The sensor features Vishay's Filtron™ technology for human-eye-like response and ultra-low power ...
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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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3-Axis Accelerometer Module for Arduino
SKU: TB-XC4478 | Brand: Little Bird
A compact 3-axis accelerometer module based on the ADXL335 sensor IC. Measures acceleration along the X, Y, and Z axes with a range of ±3g, providing one analogue output channel per axis. Useful for detecting motion, ...
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