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.
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Thermocouple Type-K Glass Braid Insulated [K]
SKU: AF-270 | Brand: Adafruit
A Type-K thermocouple with fiberglass braid insulation, rated to 500°C — far beyond the ~200°C limit of standard vinyl-insulated thermocouples. The bare bead probe design is suited to measuring both air and surface te...
Delivered by Wed 14 Oct
Line Follower Sensor
SKU: SF-SEN-24048 | Brand: SparkFun
A line follower sensor gives your robot the ability to detect lines or nearby objects. The sensor works by detecting reflected light coming from its own infrared LED. By measuring the amount of reflected infrared ligh...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Adafruit Bonsai Buckaroo - micro:bit & CLUE Plant Care Helper
SKU: AF-4534 | Brand: Adafruit
The Bonsai Buckaroo is a compact add-on board for micro:bit and Adafruit CLUE that turns your board into a plant care monitoring and watering system. Bolt it on with 5 screws to get a buzzer, motor driver, and soil mo...
Delivered by Wed 14 Oct
Strain Gauge Load Cell - 4 Wires - 1Kg
SKU: AF-4540 | Brand: Adafruit
A strain gauge is a type of electronic sensor used to measure force or strain (big surprise there). They are made of an insulating flexible backing with a metallic foil pattern. The resistance of a strain gauge change...
Delivered by Wed 14 Oct
Strain Gauge Load Cell - 4 Wires - 5Kg
SKU: AF-4541 | Brand: Adafruit
A strain gauge is a type of electronic sensor used to measure force or strain (big surprise there). They are made of an insulating flexible backing with a metallic foil pattern. The resistance of a strain gauge change...
Delivered by Wed 14 Oct
RP-C18.3-ST Thin Film Pressure Sensor
SKU: DF-SEN0294 | Brand: DFRobot
This is a circular flexible thin film pressure sensor of short legs with a diameter of 18.3mm, which can be used to realize highly sensitive detection of pressure. The sensor is durable and designed to sense static an...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
SparkFun gator:microphone - micro:bit Accessory Board
SKU: SF-SEN-15289 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun gator:microphone is a micro:bit Accessory Board that integrates an electret microphone into SparkFun's gator:bit series of gator-clippable accessories, enabling it to be easily interfaced with the micro:b...
Delivered by Tue 22 Sep
Rotary Potentiometer - 100k Ohm, Linear (Panel Mount)
SKU: SF-COM-14622 | Brand: SparkFun
An adjustable potentiometer can open up many interesting user interfaces. With this rotary potentiometer just turn the dial and the resistance changes. This potentiometer has a ¼" metal knurled shaft diameter, solder ...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Audio Analyzer Module
SKU: DF-DFR0126 | Brand: DFRobot
This Audio Analyzer module features the MSGEQ7 graphic equalizer display filter.It will give your arduino ears. Sound is broken down into seven frequency bands and the peak level for each band can be read. The seven ...
Delivered by Tue 22 Sep
Vishay TSSP58P38 IR Detector Module, 38kHz, Automatic Gain (3-Pack)
SKU: PL-2463 | Brand: Pololu
The Vishay TSSP58P38 is a unique modulated IR receiver that is designed for IR brightness detection instead of data communication for remote control. This sensor can be used with a 38 kHz modulated IR emitter an...
Delivered by Tue 22 Sep
Touch screen breakout board (0.5mm FPC)
SKU: AF-334 | Brand: Adafruit
If you've got a resistive touch screen that you'd like to use, you'll need this breakout! It has a fine pitch (0.5mm) connector soldered onto it and it's broken out into the 4 resistive wires of the panel. A petite...
Delivered by Tue 22 Sep
Analog Mini Thumbstick Breakout Board
SKU: AF-3246 | Brand: Adafruit
A neat little breakout board designed for mounting a PSP-style mini thumbstick to your project. The board features panel-mount friendly hole placement and dual-sided headers for mechanical stability when connected to ...
Delivered by Wed 14 Oct
PSP 2-Axis Analog Thumb Joystick
SKU: AF-444 | Brand: Adafruit
Add a tiny joystick to your project with this PSP thumbstick. This is a replacement component for PSP1000's, but we think they'd make for a great little joystick/thumbstick add-on for a wearable, or portable pro...
Delivered by Tue 22 Sep
Gravity:Analog UV Sensor V2
SKU: DF-SEN0162 | Brand: DFRobot
The Gravity Analog UV Sensor V2 uses a GUVA-S12SD photodiode to detect ultraviolet radiation in the 200–370 nm (UV-A) wavelength range. It outputs a linear analogue voltage signal proportional to UV intensity, making ...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Analog UV Light Sensor Breakout - GUVA-S12SD
SKU: AF-1918 | Brand: Adafruit
An analog UV light sensor breakout based on the GUVA-S12SD photodiode, detecting the 240–370nm range covering UVB and most of the UVA spectrum. An on-board op-amp amplifies the tiny photodiode current to a readable vo...
Delivered by Tue 22 Sep
Touch screen (Nintendo DSL digitizer)
SKU: AF-333 | Brand: Adafruit
A 4-wire resistive touch screen digitiser (originally designed for the Nintendo DS Lite) that works with a stylus or fingertip. It can be used with any microcontroller that has 2 digital pins and 2 analogue input pins...
Delivered by Wed 14 Oct
Gravity: Thin-film Pressure Sensor for Pressure Science Course
SKU: DF-SEN0616 | Brand: DFRobot
The Gravity: Thin-film Pressure Sensor measures pressure through the deformation of a flexible film material. As pressure increases, the film deforms, producing higher analog output values, while lighter pressure resu...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Sensor ELECFREAKS PlanetX MQ2
SKU: EF-EF05031 | Brand: ElecFreaks
The gas sensor is an essential sensor for environmental detection. ELECFREAKS PlanetX MQ2 Sensor can be used for smoke detection, the greater the smoke is, the greater the voltage value will be. It is able to detect t...
Delivered by Tue 6 Oct
ELECFREAKS PlanetX CO2 Sensor
SKU: EF-EF05030 | Brand: ElecFreaks
The gas sensor is an essential sensor for environmental detection. The ELECFREAKS PlanetX CO2 Sensor is designed to detect the concentration of CO2 with high sensitivity. The higher the concentration of CO2 is, the sm...
Delivered by Tue 6 Oct
Intelligent Rain Detection Module
SKU: DF-SEN0545 | Brand: DFRobot
This smart rain sensor offers a fast way to detect rainfall change on glass in real-time free from effects like sunlight, dust, leaves, etc., and feeds back information (no rain, light rain, moderate rain, or heavy ra...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
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