Sensors & Input

SKU: PR-PIM366 | Brand: Little Bird

A sophisticated, hackable, 32x24 pixel thermal camera breakout! Use it to monitor the temperature of your CPU or coffee pot, or to build your own heat-seeking night vision camera. Works with Raspberry Pi or Arduino.It...

SKU: PR-PIM217 | Brand: Little Bird

The Automation HAT is a versatile home monitoring and automation controller for Raspberry Pi. With relays, analog channels, powered outputs, and buffered inputs — all 24V tolerant — you can connect a wide range of sen...

SKU: AF-1982 | Brand: Adafruit

The Adafruit MPR121 Capacitive Touch Sensor Breakout provides 12 channels of capacitive touch sensing over I2C. The MPR121 handles all the capacitive filtering internally and can be configured for varying sensitivity ...

SKU: SF-SEN-22857 | Brand: SparkFun

Virtual reality is in, but you shouldn't have to drop hundreds of dollars to gain access to the technology behind it. Luckily, that's where the SparkFun VR IMU Breakout comes in. At its heart is CEVA’s BNO086, a combi...

SKU: PR-PIM622 | Brand: Little Bird

A sophisticated distance sensor with 8x8 multizone ranging and a wide field of view - great for robots and advanced motion sensing. This sensor measures distance by beaming low powered infrared lasers at a target (p...

SKU: DF-SEN0377 | Brand: DFRobot

This is a 3.3/5V compatible MEMS gas concentration sensor from DFRobot.  This sensor supports the detection of various gas concentrations like CO, C2H5OH (Alcohol), H2, NO2, NH3, and integrates various gas c...

SKU: PL-2482 | Brand: Pololu

The Pololu basic relay carrier modules allow simple control of a single-pole, double-throw (SPDT) switch from low-voltage, low-current control signals. This item includes the basic carrier PCB with a soldered-in 1...

SKU: PL-2462 | Brand: Pololu

The Vishay TSSP58038 is a modulated IR receiver that is designed specifically for sensing applications instead of data communication for remote control. Unlike most similar-looking units, it has a fixed gain that mak...

SKU: LB-LS4690-50CM | Brand: Little Bird

A waterproof DS18B20 digital temperature probe with a 0.5m cable and XH2.54mm connector. Ideal for monitoring temperatures in wet or harsh environments including aquariums, hydroponics, brewing, and outdoor weather st...

SKU: PR-WPSE358 | Brand: Little Bird

A gesture recognition sensor module capable of detecting nine distinct hand gestures including directional swipes, rotation, and waving. The module communicates via I²C and features both normal and game modes for diff...

SKU: SF-BOB-19626 | Brand: SparkFun

The SparkFun 8 Channel Level Shifter Breakout features the TXS01018E™ 8-bit, bi-directional logic level translator from Texas Instruments. This board allows you to easily shift logic between devices running at diff...

SKU: SF-SEN-19013 | Brand: SparkFun

The SparkFun Qwiic Mini ToF Imager is a 64-pixel Time-of-Flight ranging sensor built around the STMicroelectronics VL53L5CX. It provides multizone distance measurements up to 4000 mm across a 4×4 or 8×8 grid with a 63...

SKU: AF-4931 | Brand: Adafruit

This thin silvery ribbon is an interesting sensor. It's made of 2mm wide by 600mm long piezoelectric film sandwich. Piezo film can be used to detect motion or vibration - when shifted around or touched, it create...

SKU: SF-GPS-17519 | Brand: SparkFun

Many magnetic mount GPS antennas rely on being mounted on a car or other large metallic object to provide a good ground plane. But what if you want to use an antenna not on a car? The GPS Antenna Ground Plate is the s...

SKU: SF-DEV-16832 | Brand: SparkFun

The SparkFun OpenLog Artemis is an open source data logger that comes preprogrammed to automatically log IMU, GPS, serial data, and various pressure, humidity, and distance sensors. All without writing a single line o...

SKU: AF-4409 | Brand: Adafruit

The Adafruit STEMMA Non-Latching Mini Relay lets you switch lamps, fans, solenoids, and other small appliances (up to 250 VAC/DC) using any 3V or 5V microcontroller — no soldering, flyback diodes, or level shifting re...

SKU: SF-SEN-15242 | Brand: SparkFun

The SparkFun Qwiic Scale is a small breakout board for the NAU7802 that allows you to easily read load cells to accurately measure the weight of an object. By connecting the board to your microcontroller you will be a...

SKU: LB-00341 | Brand: Little Bird

Learn to build electronic projects that sense the physical world using sensors, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi. This book takes you from basic electronic circuits through to sophisticated sensor systems that can react to t...

SKU: DF-SEN0265 | Brand: DFRobot

The Pixy2 (CMUcam5) is a fast, compact vision sensor for robotics that can detect objects, track colours, follow lines, and read small barcodes — all at 60 frames per second. Teach it to recognise objects by pressing ...

SKU: PI-COM1004 | Brand: Pimoroni

You'll find these rotary potentiometers in our Maker Essentials kit, but they're so useful we decided to offer them on their own! Pair them with something like our Explorer HAT Pro or Explorer pHAT to rea...