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.
Pycom Pytrack - GPS+motion shield for WiPy, SiPy, and LoPy
SKU: PI-PYC007 | Brand: Pimoroni
The Pycom Pytrack is a GPS and motion sensor shield compatible with Pycom multi-network modules including the WiPy, SiPy, and LoPy. It provides accurate GNSS positioning, a 3-axis accelerometer, USB serial access, LiP...
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Pycom Pysense - Sensor shield for WiPy, SiPy, and LoPy
SKU: PI-PYC006 | Brand: Pimoroni
The Pycom Pysense is a sensor-packed expansion shield that fits all Pycom multi-network modules — including the WiPy, SiPy, and LoPy. It gives you a head start on IoT projects by combining five sensors, a LiPo charger...
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MyoWare Muscle Sensor
SKU: PI-AT-04-001 | Brand: Pimoroni
The MyoWare Muscle Sensor is an all-in-one electromyography (EMG) sensor that measures the filtered and rectified electrical activity of a muscle. It outputs 0 V to Vs (supply voltage) depending on the level of activi...
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MDBT42Q Breakout
SKU: PI-ESP004 | Brand: Pimoroni
This board has the same Bluetooth LE module that used on Puck.js and Pixl.js, pre-programmed with Espruino. Just apply power, connect with Bluetooth LE or Serial and start writing JavaScript! This is a boar...
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SparkFun Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout - H3LIS331DL
SKU: SF-SEN-14480 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun H3LIS331DL Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout is a low-power, high-g accelerometer with I2C and SPI interface options. Though not necessarily good at detecting minute changes, the H3LIS331DL is great for ...
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10 DOF Mems IMU Sensor (Arduino Compatible)
SKU: DF-SEN0140 | Brand: DFRobot
The DFRobot 10 DOF MEMS IMU Sensor combines four sensors on a single compact board — the ADXL345 accelerometer, ITG-3205 gyroscope, HMC5883L magnetometer, and BMP085 barometric pressure sensor. Together they provide 1...
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One-Wire Ambient Temperature Sensor - MAX31820
SKU: SF-SEN-14049 | Brand: SparkFun
The MAX31820 ambient temperature sensor provides 9-bit to 12-bit Celsius temperature measurements with ±0.5°C accuracy over a +10°C to +45°C temperature range. Over its entire -55°C to +125°C operating range, the devi...
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SparkFun Coulomb Counter Breakout - LTC4150
SKU: SF-BOB-12052 | Brand: SparkFun
Odometers are extremely useful for cars, they tell you how far you have gone, wouldn’t it be nice if you were able to have a device that does the same for electrical current? The LTC4150 SparkFun Coulomb Counter Break...
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SparkFun Capacitive Touch Breakout - AT42QT1010
SKU: SF-SEN-12041 | Brand: SparkFun
If you need to add user input without using a button, then a capacitive touch interface might be the answer. The AT42QT1010 SparkFun Capacitive Touch Breakout offers a single capacitive touch button with easy-to-use d...
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SparkFun Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout - LIS3DH
SKU: SF-SEN-13963 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun LIS3DH breakout is a low-power, three-axis accelerometer with 12-bit resolution, ideal for adding motion and orientation detection to your projects. It communicates over I2C or SPI and includes three addi...
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SparkFun OpenScale
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...
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SparkFun IR Thermometer Evaluation Board - MLX90614
SKU: SF-SEN-10740 | Brand: SparkFun
An evaluation board for the MLX90614 non-contact infrared thermometer sensor. It pairs the MLX90614 with an ATmega328 running at 3.3 V (8 MHz Arduino bootloader), giving you a ready-to-use IR temperature sensor with s...
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SparkFun RGB and Gesture Sensor - APDS-9960
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...
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SparkFun Micro 6DoF IMU Breakout - LSM6DSV16X (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-21336 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Micro 6DoF IMU Breakout features the STMicroelectronics LSM6DSV16X — a high-performance, low-power 6-axis IMU with a 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis gyroscope. Its triple-core architecture processes data ...
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TSSP77038 38kHz IR Demodulator Breakout
SKU: AF-5940 | Brand: Adafruit
This breakout uses Vishay's TSSP77038 infrared demodulator to give you the raw demodulated output from a 38kHz IR signal, without the extra filtering used in typical remote-control receivers. That makes it a handy cho...
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Micro Proximity Sensor - 20 cm VCNL4040 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-30161 | Brand: SparkFun
Built around the VCNL4040, this tiny Qwiic Micro breakout provides short-range presence detection for projects where space and weight are tight. It is designed for qualitative sensing: detecting whether an object is p...
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Qwiic Soil Moisture Sensor
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 ...
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DFRobot Gravity 10DOF IMU AHRS (BNO055 + BMP280)
SKU: DF-SEN0253 | Brand: DFRobot
This compact Gravity module combines a Bosch BNO055 absolute orientation sensor with a BMP280 barometric pressure and temperature sensor to create a 10DOF AHRS module for motion, heading and environmental sensing.The ...
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Gravity SFA40 Formaldehyde (HCHO) Sensor
SKU: DF-SEN0661 | Brand: DFRobot
This Gravity-series module is a high-precision electrochemical sensor for monitoring formaldehyde (HCHO) in indoor air. It is built around Sensirion’s SFA40 sensing chip and is designed to selectively detect HCHO whil...
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LG290P Quadband GNSS RTK Breakout (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-GPS-26620 | Brand: SparkFun
Built around the Quectel LG290P, this compact RTK GNSS breakout is designed for high-precision positioning projects that need quad-band, multi-constellation reception. It follows the same board dimensions, pin layout ...
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