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.
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 RFID Starter Kit
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...
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Hydrogen Gas Sensor - MQ-8
SKU: SF-SEN-10916 | Brand: SparkFun
This is a simple-to-use hydrogen gas sensor, suitable for sensing hydrogen concentrations in the air. The MQ-8 can detect hydrogen gas concentrations anywhere from 100-10000ppm. This sensor has a high sensitivity an...
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12 eTape Liquid Level Sensor + extras
SKU: AF-464 | Brand: Adafruit
The eTape Liquid Level Sensor is a solid-state resistive sensor that measures fluid level without mechanical floats. As the liquid level rises, the hydrostatic pressure compresses the sensor envelope, decreasing its r...
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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 Logomatic v2 - Serial SD Datalogger (FAT32)
SKU: SF-WIG-12772 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Logomatic v2 is a versatile serial and analogue data logger built around the NXP LPC2148 ARM7 microcontroller. It logs data to a microSD card in FAT32 format and appears as a USB mass storage device, so l...
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Leddar M16 Sensor Module (45 degree beam)
SKU: DF-SEN0200 | Brand: DFRobot
INTRODUCTION The Leddar M16 Sensor Module is an advanced sensing solution that combines 16 independent active elements into a single sensor, resulting in rapid, continuous and accurate de...
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Leddar M16 Sensor Module (95 degree beam)
SKU: DF-SEN0201 | Brand: DFRobot
INTRODUCTION The Leddar M16 Sensor Module is an advanced sensing solution that combines 16 independent active elements into a single sensor, resulting in rapid, continuous and accurate de...
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Pixy CMUcam5 Sensor
SKU: AF-1906 | Brand: Adafruit
The Pixy2 (CMUcam5) is a smart vision sensor that can be taught to detect objects, track lines, and identify intersections — all at 60 frames per second. It offloads image processing from your microcontroller, sending...
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RPLIDAR A2 - 360 Degree Laser Scanner Development Kit
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...
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SparkFun RFID USB Reader
SKU: SF-SEN-09963 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun RFID USB Reader is a simple to use, USB to serial base unit for the ID-3LA, ID-12LA, and ID-20LA readers. Simply plug a reader into the headers and attach a miniUSB cable. Open a terminal program of your ...
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Chirp! The Plant Watering Alarm
SKU: AF-1965 | Brand: Adafruit
Let's be honest - the hardest part about owning a houseplant is not killing it. And the hardest part about not killing your houseplant, at least for us, is remembering to water it. The Chirp! Plant Watering Alarm i...
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Liquid Flow Meter - Brass 1/2 Nominal Threaded
SKU: AF-833 | Brand: Adafruit
This brass liquid flow meter measures water or other liquid flow using a pinwheel and Hall effect sensor. As liquid passes through the 1/2" threaded brass body, it spins an internal pinwheel with a magnet attached. A ...
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URM07-UART Low-Power Consumption Ultrasonic Sensor (20~750cm)
SKU: DF-SEN0153 | Brand: DFRobot
The URM07 is an ultra-low-power UART ultrasonic distance sensor with an effective range of 20–750 cm. Operating on 3.0–5.5 V, it is directly compatible with 3.3 V and 5 V microcontrollers including Arduino and Raspber...
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RFID Glass Capsule (125kHz)
SKU: SF-SEN-09416 | Brand: SparkFun
This is a glass, cylindrical RFID tag; it’s very similar to those implanted into pets for identification purposes. But really guys, it’s not for use inside your body. Please don’t implant this thing into yourselves. E...
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INA219 High Side DC Current Sensor Breakout - 26V ±3.2A Max
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...
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Great Scott Gadgets YARD Stick One - Software Defined Radio
SKU: AF-3586 | Brand: Adafruit
YARD Stick One (Yet Another Radio Dongle) from Great Scott Gadgets can transmit or receive digital wireless signals at frequencies below 1 GHz. It uses the same radio circuit as the popular IM-Me. The radio...
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Raspberry Pi Sense Hat
SKU: RP-SC0329_1 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
The Raspberry Pi Sense HAT is an add-on board that attaches to the Raspberry Pi via the 40-pin GPIO header, adding a suite of environmental and motion sensors, an 8×8 RGB LED matrix, and a mini joystick. It's the same...
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MyoWare Electrodes (10-pack)
SKU: PI-AT-04-003 | Brand: Pimoroni
A pack of 10 disposable, pre-gelled foam electrodes designed for use with MyoWare Muscle Sensors. Each electrode snaps directly onto the sensor for quick and clean electromyography (EMG) measurements — no additional g...
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