Sensors & Input

SKU: PI-COM1702 | Brand: Pimoroni

This sensor is composed of an infrared emitter on one upright and a shielded infrared detector on the other. By emitting a beam of infrared light from one upright to the other, the sensor can detect when an object pas...

SKU: PI-CBI013 | Brand: Pimoroni

You’ve learned how to blink, fade and flash lights – now learn how to sense light levels! The Chibitronics Light Sensor sticker can turn the light level shining upon it into an analog voltage. Best of all, it comes...

SKU: SF-GPS-15136 | Brand: SparkFun

With GPS you are able to know where you are, where you’re going, and how to get there anywhere on Earth within 30 seconds. This means the higher the accuracy the better! GPS Real Time Kinematics (RTK) has mastered dia...

SKU: SF-SEN-15050 | Brand: SparkFun

The SparkFun Triad Spectroscopy Sensor combines three AS7265x spectral sensors with onboard UV, visible, and IR LEDs to measure light across 18 individual frequencies — from 410 nm (UV) to 940 nm (IR). It brings light...

SKU: AF-1778 | Brand: Adafruit

The AD8495 from Analog Devices is an analog-output K-type thermocouple amplifier on a compact breakout board. Simply power the board with 3–18V DC, connect a K-type thermocouple to the terminal block, and read the tem...

SKU: DF-SEN0090 | Brand: DFRobot

The XL-MaxSonar-AE0 offers a wide and sensitive beam pattern for indoor use. This makes the XL-MaxSonar-AE0 an excellent choice wherever wide beam detection, reliable people detection, or reliable small obstacle de...

SKU: DF-SEN0089 | Brand: DFRobot

The XL-MaxSonar-EZ0 offers a wide and sensitive beam pattern for indoor use. This makes the XL-MaxSonar-EZ0 an excellent choice wherever wide beam detection, reliable people detection, or reliable small obstacle de...

SKU: SF-SEN-14032 | Brand: SparkFun

It’s back! This is the LIDAR-Lite v3, a compact, high-performance optical distance measurement sensor from Garmin™. When space and weight requirements are tight, the LIDAR-Lite v3 soars. The LIDAR-Lite v3 is the ideal...

SKU: SF-SEN-11862 | Brand: SparkFun

RFID (radio-frequency identification) is the wireless non-contact use of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields, for the purposes of identifying and tracking tags attached to objects. This is the ID-3LA, a very simple...

SKU: SF-KIT-13198 | Brand: SparkFun

This it the SparkFun RFID Starter Kit, an all-in-one kit that offer everything you need to get your next RFID project off the ground. This kit includes our USB RFID Reader, ID-12LA RFID module, and two 125kHz RFID car...

SKU: SF-SEN-12787 | Brand: SparkFun

This is the SparkFun RGB and Gesture Sensor, a small breakout board with a built in APDS-9960 sensor that offers ambient light and color measuring, proximity detection, and touchless gesture sensing. With this RGB and...

SKU: DF-DFR0445 | Brand: DFRobot

RPLIDAR A2 is the next generation low cost 360 degree 2D laser scanner (LIDAR) solution developed by SLAMTEC. It can take up to 4000 samples of laser ranging per second with high rotation speed. And equipped with S...

SKU: AF-904 | Brand: Adafruit

This breakout board will solve all your power-monitoring problems. Instead of struggling with two multimeters, you can just use the handy INA219B chip on this breakout to both measure both the high side voltage and DC...

SKU: SF-KIT-27920 | Brand: SparkFun

This all-in-one electromyography (EMG) kit gives you the MyoWare 2 boards needed to experiment with different muscle-sensing setups. Depending on how you configure it, you can visualise muscle activity with the MyoWar...

SKU: AF-6310 | Brand: Adafruit

This breakout turns the ANO rotary encoder wheel into an easy-to-use I2C input device. The ANO wheel gives you a clicky, scroll-wheel-style interface with a rotary control plus five button switches, without needing to...

SKU: AF-6311 | Brand: Adafruit

This breakout makes the ANO rotary encoder wheel much easier to use in a breadboard or wired prototype. The encoder is a distinctive navigation control, with a clicky scroll-wheel feel reminiscent of early iPod interf...

SKU: AF-6461 | Brand: Adafruit

This compact breakout combines RGB colour sensing, true lux light measurement and infrared proximity detection in one I2C device. With library code running on your microcontroller, it can read red, green, blue and cle...

SKU: SF-GPS-28871 | Brand: SparkFun

This GNSS RTK breakout brings the u-blox X20 engine to a maker-friendly board for high-precision positioning projects. It is designed around the ZED-X20P all-band receiver and can process signals from GPS, Galileo, Be...

SKU: SF-KIT-15209 | Brand: SparkFun

This kit gives you the core hardware needed to start reading 125kHz RFID tags over I2C, without hunting for a separate reader module, antenna or wiring up a complex circuit. The box includes a SparkFun RFID Qwiic Read...

SKU: SF-SEN-24409 | Brand: SparkFun

This compact breakout board measures moisture in soil and similar materials using two large exposed pads as conductivity probes. As the soil gets wetter, conductivity between the pads increases, resistance drops, and ...