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.
Gravity: Digital 1-to-8 I2C Multiplexer
SKU: DF-DFR0576 | Brand: DFRobot
The Gravity I2C Multiplexer solves address conflicts when you need to connect multiple I²C devices that share the same fixed address. It provides eight independent I²C ports on a single bus, allowing up to eight ident...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
ESP8266 WIFI wifi control module ESP-12F
SKU: LB-LR0214-80A | Brand: Little Bird
ESP-12F: breakthrough design, there are new breakthroughs. The new four-layer board design, the new revision antenna RF performance optimisation, compared to the communication from the ESP-12E increased by 30% to 50%!...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
Small Enclosed Piezo w/Wires
SKU: AF-1740 | Brand: Adafruit
This small (14mm diameter) piezo element is nicely enclosed so you can attach easily. Piezo elements convert vibration to voltage or voltage to vibration. That means you can use this as a buzzer for making beeps, tone...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
Medium Vibration Sensor Switch
SKU: AF-2384 | Brand: Adafruit
The "poor man's" accelerometer/motion sensor! These spring-vibration switches are medium sensitivity non-directional vibration induced trigger switches. Inside is a medium hardness spring coiled around a long metal...
Delivered by Tue 30 Jun
Adafruit 9-DOF Absolute Orientation IMU Fusion Breakout - BNO055
SKU: AF-2472 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit BNO055 breakout delivers complete 9-DOF orientation sensing with onboard sensor fusion — no complex algorithms to write yourself. The Bosch BNO055 combines an accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer on...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
Rotary Encoder
SKU: SF-COM-09117 | Brand: SparkFun
This is a 12-step rotary encoder with a nice ‘clicking’ feel. It’s breadboard friendly, and has a pretty handy select switch (by pushing in on the knob). The encoder is different from a potentiometer in that an enc...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
Mini Photocell
SKU: SF-SEN-09088 | Brand: SparkFun
This is a very small light sensor. A photocell changes (also called a photodetector, photo resistor, CdS or photoconductive cell) resistance depending on the amount of light it is exposed to. These little sensors make...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
Gravity: Digital Push Button (Red)
SKU: DF-DFR0029-R | Brand: DFRobot
Press to release pleasure! Our redesigned digital push buttons come with LED, immersion gold surface, and bright colored hats. A captital D at left corner indicates that it is a digital sensor. An illustration of b...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
Photo cell (CdS photoresistor)
SKU: AF-161 | Brand: Adafruit
CdS cells are little light sensors. As the squiggly face is exposed to more light, the resistance goes down. When its light, the resistance is about 5-10KΩ, when dark it goes up to 200KΩ. To use, connect one side o...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
Sensor Cable - Electrode Pads (3 connector)
SKU: SF-CAB-12970 | Brand: SparkFun
This is your simple three conductor sensor cable with electrode pad leads. These cables are 24" long and feature a 3.5mm audio jack connector on one end with snap style receptacles for biomedical sensor pads. Each cab...
Delivered by Fri 19 Jun
SparkFun Single Lead Heart Rate Monitor - AD8232
SKU: SF-SEN-12650 | Brand: SparkFun
The AD8232 SparkFun Single Lead Heart Rate Monitor is a cost-effective board used to measure the electrical activity of the heart. This electrical activity can be charted as an ECG or Electrocardiogram and output as a...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
RPLIDAR A1M8 - 360 Degree Laser Scanner Development Kit
SKU: DF-DFR0315 | Brand: DFRobot
FEATURESAPPLICATIONSSPECIFICATIONSNote: It has been newest Model: A1M8 --2017/5/15 DOCUMENTS SLAMTEC Website Development Kit SDK & Datasheet Related Rplidar Review by Gavin (@MechatronicsGuy) ICP-SLAM based on Rob...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
ESP32-H2-DevKitM-1 - 4 MB Flash
SKU: AF-5715 | Brand: Adafruit
The ESP32-H2-DevKitM-1 is an entry-level development board based on the ESP32-H2-MINI-1 module, featuring Bluetooth Low Energy 5, IEEE 802.15.4, Thread, Matter, and Zigbee support on a single chip. It's an ultra-low-p...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
Mini PIR Sensor with Time and Sensitivity Control - BS612
SKU: AF-5578 | Brand: Adafruit
The BS612 is a compact, fully configurable mini PIR motion sensor that detects movement from approximately 3–8 metres away with a 120° detection spread. Its small form factor makes it ideal for unobtrusive motion-sens...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
ESP32-S3-WROOM-1-N4 Module (PCB Antenna)
SKU: DF-DFR0896 | Brand: DFRobot
The ESP32-S3-WROOM-1-N4 is a powerful Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE MCU module built around the ESP32-S3 SoC. Featuring a dual-core Xtensa LX7 processor running at up to 240MHz, 4MB SPI flash, and hardware acceleration for n...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
Adafruit Triple-axis Magnetometer - MMC5603
SKU: AF-5579 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit MMC5603 is a triple-axis magnetometer (compass) breakout with a wide ±30 gauss (±3000 µT) measurement range and full 20-bit output resolution at up to 1000 Hz. It's sensitive enough to detect Earth's magn...
Delivered by Tue 30 Jun
FS-600 Geiger Nuclear Radiation Detector
SKU: LB-RADI | Brand: Little Bird
FS-600 is a small height radiation detector. Its main function is to monitor X-ray, ♥-ray and ⑤-ray. The detector of this instrument is an energy compensation Geiger counter (hereinafter referred to as tube). It is...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
5.8GHz Microwave Radar Module
SKU: DF-SEN0521 | Brand: DFRobot
The 5.8GHz Microwave Radar Module is a high-sensitivity motion detection sensor that transmits and receives 5.8GHz electromagnetic waves. By analysing the difference between transmitted and reflected signals, it relia...
Delivered by Fri 19 Jun
Gravity: 360 Degree Rotary Encoder Module
SKU: DF-SEN0502 | Brand: DFRobot
This looks like a potentiometer, but it’s an encoder switch. It is a cascadable 360 ° rotary encoder switch with 20 pulses per revolution, and each pulse corresponds to a detent. There are LED lights set for each dete...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
Temperature Sensor - High Temperature, Waterproof (DS18B20)
SKU: SF-SEN-18367 | Brand: SparkFun
A sealed, waterproof DS18B20 digital temperature probe for precise measurements in wet or harsh environments. The sensor communicates over a 1-Wire interface, requiring just one data pin (plus ground) to connect to yo...
Delivered by Wed 10 Jun
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