Sensors & Input

SKU: SF-COM-11636 | Brand: SparkFun

Are you trying to make a quick dime from electronics? Why limit yourself to dimes? This coin acceptor will take up to 6 different kinds of coin! Whether you’re building your own arcade cabinet or just charging admissi...

SKU: DF-DFR0280 | Brand: DFRobot

Sharp GP2Y1010AU Dust Sensor requires some wiring on the breadboard and a list of components to make it Arduino compatible. This has turned down several people due to the thin wires of the sharp sensor making it ...

SKU: DF-SEN0128 | Brand: DFRobot

An analogue alcohol gas sensor based on the MQ-3 probe, designed for use with Arduino and other microcontrollers. The sensor outputs a voltage proportional to the concentration of alcohol vapour in the surrounding air...

SKU: AF-164 | Brand: Adafruit

The Sharp GP2Y0A21YK0F is an infrared distance sensor that measures distances from 10 cm to 80 cm by bouncing IR light off objects. It outputs an analogue voltage proportional to distance — approximately 3 V at 10 cm ...

SKU: AF-173 | Brand: Adafruit

The "poor man's" accelerometer! Tilt sensors are switches that can detect basic motion/orientation. The metal tube has a little metal ball that rolls around in it, when its tilted upright, the ball rolls onto the cont...

SKU: SF-GPS-13670 | Brand: SparkFun

The GP-735 is a slim, ultra-high performance, easy to use GPS smart antenna receiver. With -162dBm tracking sensitivity and only 29 second cold start time, the GP735 is a tiny, yet powerful, piece of tech. The slim de...

SKU: SF-SEN-11446 | Brand: SparkFun

A breakout board for the Analog Devices ADXL362, a 3-axis MEMS accelerometer that operates at ultra-low power consumption. It measures both dynamic acceleration (motion, shock) and static acceleration (tilt), and comm...

SKU: SF-DEV-13629 | Brand: SparkFun

This is the SparkFun Photon IMU Shield, a versatile motion-sensing add-on board for your Photon device. Each IMU shield is equipped with an on-board LSM9DS1 system-in-a-chip that houses a 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis ...

SKU: SF-PRT-13612 | Brand: SparkFun

This Thermocouple Connector is perfect for bridging the gap between Type-K thermocouples with standard connectors with a PCB. This little connector is actually the exact part we recommend using with our SparkFun Th...

SKU: AF-249 | Brand: Adafruit

This pack includes everything you need to build a light and temperature data logger with an Arduino. The Adafruit data logger shield records sensor readings to an SD card with real-time timestamps, while the included ...

SKU: SF-SEN-13582 | Brand: SparkFun

The SparkFun Line Follower Array is a long board consisting of eight IR sensors that have been configured to read as digital bits! We have designed the SparkFun Line Follower Arrays to follow a dark line of about ¾ in...

SKU: SF-SEN-13314 | Brand: SparkFun

The TMP102 is an easy-to-use digital temperature sensor from Texas Instruments. The TMP102 breakout allows you to easily incorporate the digital temperature sensor into your project. While some temperature sensors use...

SKU: SF-DEV-11262 | Brand: SparkFun

The ProtoSnap series is a new way to prototype your project without a breadboard. Everything is wired together on a single board, which makes it easy to explore the possibilities of the components before snapping t...

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...

SKU: AF-3102 | Brand: Adafruit

A compact analogue joystick with two 10kΩ potentiometers and a spring-return mechanism. Unlike arcade-style joysticks that use clicking switches, this joystick provides smooth, proportional analogue output across a fu...

SKU: AF-3199 | Brand: Adafruit

The Adafruit MiCS-5524 Gas Sensor Breakout is a robust MEMS sensor from SGX Sensortech for detecting carbon monoxide, natural gas leaks, alcohol, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). It provides a simple analogue vo...

SKU: AF-359 | Brand: Adafruit

This blank 13.56 MHz RFID/NFC card contains a Mifare Classic 1K chip with 1 KB of writable EEPROM storage. The standard credit-card-sized form factor (ISO 7810 ID-1) makes it suitable for access control badges, identi...

SKU: AF-361 | Brand: Adafruit

This blank 13.56 MHz RFID/NFC clear tag is a compact disc-shaped token commonly used for laundry tracking, garment identification, and asset tagging. The transparent housing makes the embedded antenna coil visible. Th...

SKU: SF-COM-11102 | Brand: SparkFun

This 1024 pulse per rotation rotary encoder outputs gray code which you can interpret using a microcontroller and find out which direction the shaft is turning and by how much. This allows you to add feedback to motor...

SKU: AF-3103 | Brand: Adafruit

Sometimes a simple analog control device can be the perfect tactile solution for your project, but they can be surprisingly hard to come by. Luckily we've found a low cost, quality PSP 3000 2-Axis Analog Thumb...