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 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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DE-LIDAR TF01 (ToF) Laser Rangefinder (10m)
SKU: DF-SEN0238 | Brand: DFRobot
DE-LIDAR TF01 is a unidirectional laser rangefinder, which based on ToF (Time of Flight) technology. It is comprised of particular optical and electrical devices that makes it stable, high sensitivity and high pre...
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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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AS7331 UVA/UVB/UVC Sensor Breakout
SKU: AF-6476 | Brand: Adafruit
This compact board makes it easy to measure ultraviolet light across three separate bands, giving you independent UVA, UVB and UVC readings instead of a single combined value. That makes it a strong fit for human and ...
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LiPo Fuel Gauge - MAX17043
SKU: SF-TOL-20680 | Brand: SparkFun
Keep an eye on your single-cell LiPo battery before your project suddenly runs out of power. This compact fuel gauge board sits in circuit with your battery and reports the relative state of charge using the MAX17043 ...
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HMC6343 Qwiic Digital Compass
SKU: SF-SEN-30183 | Brand: SparkFun
This compact digital compass module is built around the HMC6343, a fully integrated electronic compass designed to deliver reliable heading data without making your main microcontroller do all the processing.Unlike ba...
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Qwiic Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensor
SKU: SF-SEN-30480 | Brand: SparkFun
This capacitive soil moisture breakout is designed for plant monitoring projects where exposed metal probes can corrode after time in the dirt. It measures moisture using a capacitive plate embedded in the board, mana...
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DFRobot Waterproof Digital Thermometer with Display
SKU: DF-FIT0507-EN | Brand: DFRobot
This compact digital thermometer gives you a simple, low-cost way to monitor temperature in wet or enclosed environments. It has an integrated display and a 1 m probe cable, making it handy for greenhouses, fish tanks...
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MyoWare 2 Muscle Sensor Development Kit
SKU: SF-KIT-27920 | Brand: SparkFun
This all-in-one electromyography (EMG) kit gives you the MyoWare 2 boards needed to experiment with different muscle-sensing setups. Depending on how you configure it, you can visualise muscle activity with the MyoWar...
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RFID Qwiic Reader for ID Innovations Modules
SKU: SF-SEN-15191 | Brand: SparkFun
This Qwiic RFID reader breakout makes it much easier to add low-frequency 125kHz RFID scanning to a project. It is designed for ID Innovations ID-3LA, ID-12LA and ID-20LA reader modules, converting the module output i...
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STC31 CO2 Sensor (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-29260 | Brand: SparkFun
Measure high concentrations of carbon dioxide with a Qwiic breakout built around Sensirion’s STC31 sensor. It is designed for CO2 measurements up to 100% volume, using a thermal conductivity measurement principle and ...
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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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Artemis Global Tracker Satellite GNSS Board
SKU: SF-WRL-18712 | Brand: SparkFun
Built for field deployments well beyond WiFi and mobile coverage, this compact tracker combines an Iridium 9603N Short Burst Data modem with the Arduino-compatible Artemis module. It can send and receive short satelli...
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DAN-F10N Dual-Band L1/L5 GNSS Breakout
SKU: SF-GPS-28435 | Brand: SparkFun
Built around the u-blox F10 engine, this GNSS breakout receives L1 and L5 frequency bands simultaneously for reliable metre-level positioning, even in challenging environments such as dense urban canyons. u-blox multi...
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RTK Express GNSS Surveying Kit
SKU: SF-GPS-18380 | Brand: SparkFun
This field-ready kit is made for centimetre-level global positioning measurements using GNSS RTK. It centres on the RTK Express, a Bluetooth® enabled multi-band GNSS receiver based on the Espressif ESP32 and u-blox ZE...
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