Sensors
Browse our extensive range of sensor modules and breakout boards, covering temperature, distance, motion, touch, liquid level, radar, infrared, and more. Whether you're building with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or your own custom PCB, you'll find the right sensor for your project.
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Electret Microphone Amplifier - MAX9814 with Auto Gain Control
SKU: AF-1713 | Brand: Adafruit
Add an ear to your project with this well-designed electret microphone amplifier with AGC. This fully assembled and tested board comes with a 20-20KHz electret microphone soldered on. For the amplification, we use th...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Gravity:DIGITAL IR Transmitter Module
SKU: DF-DFR0095 | Brand: DFRobot
An infrared transmitter is simply a Light Emitting Diode which generates IR light (invisible IR light)--light with a wavelength of between 1 mm and 750 nanometers, and some associated circuitry. In an infrared ...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout - 66 channel w/10 Hz updates [Version 3]
SKU: AF-746 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout (Version 3) is a high-performance GPS module built around the MTK3339 chipset. With 66 channels, -165 dBm tracking sensitivity, and up to 10 Hz position updates, it delivers accurate...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Weather Meter Kit
SKU: SF-SEN-15901 | Brand: SparkFun
This Weather Meter Kit provides the three core sensors for a DIY weather station: an anemometer (wind speed), a wind vane (wind direction), and a rain gauge. All three sensors use passive magnetic reed switches rather...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Fast Vibration Sensor Switch (Easy to trigger)
SKU: AF-1766 | Brand: Adafruit
The "poor man's" accelerometer/motion sensor! These spring-vibration switches are high sensitivity non-directional vibration induced trigger switches. Inside is a very soft spring coiled around a long metal pin....
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Large Enclosed Piezo Element w/Wires
SKU: AF-1739 | Brand: Adafruit
This large enclosed piezo element (30 mm diameter) converts vibration to voltage and voltage to vibration, making it useful both as a buzzer for generating tones and as a sensor for detecting knocks and impacts. The e...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Gravity: I2C BME280 Environmental Sensor (Temperature, Humidity, Barometer)
SKU: DF-SEN0236 | Brand: DFRobot
BME280 is an environmental sensor that integrates onboard temperature sensor, humidity sensor and barometer. The sensor is of high precision, multiple functions, and small size etc. It provides both SPI and I2C in...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Electret Microphone Amplifier - MAX4466 with Adjustable Gain
SKU: AF-1063 | Brand: Adafruit
A well-designed electret microphone amplifier breakout built around the Maxim MAX4466 op-amp, specifically engineered for microphone amplification with excellent power supply noise rejection. The board comes fully ass...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Gravity: Analog TDS Sensor/Meter for Arduino
SKU: DF-SEN0244 | Brand: DFRobot
The Gravity Analog TDS Sensor is an Arduino-compatible kit for measuring Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) in water. TDS indicates how many milligrams of soluble solids are dissolved per litre — the higher the value, the l...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Photo Transistor Light Sensor
SKU: AF-2831 | Brand: Adafruit
This Photo Transistor Light Sensor is a simple sensor that detects ambient light. It's kind of the opposite of an LED - when light hits the little chip inside, it induces current to flow from the long pin...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Piezo Element
SKU: SF-SEN-10293 | Brand: SparkFun
A simple piezo element that can be used as both a sensor and a small audio transducer. When flexed or tapped, it generates a voltage that can be read by a microcontroller, making it ideal for knock and vibration detec...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
BMM150 3-axis Magnetometer Sensor, Digital Compass Sensor, Magnetic Field Measurement
SKU: WS-24657 | Brand: Waveshare
BMM150 3-axis Magnetometer Sensor, Digital Compass Sensor, Magnetic Field Measurement BMM150 3-axis Magnetometer Sensor Suitable for compass, electronic compass applications ...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
LC76G Multi-GNSS Module, Supports GPS, BDS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS
SKU: WS-24370 | Brand: Waveshare
The LC76G is a multi-GNSS positioning module that supports GPS, BeiDou (BDS), GLONASS, Galileo, and QZSS satellite systems. It allows multi-system combined or single-system independent positioning for fast, accurate l...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Octopus PIR Sensor Brick
SKU: EF-EF04055 | Brand: ElecFreaks
OCTOPUS PIR Sensor module is a type of electronic building block based on AM412 pyroelectric digital smart sensor. It can be used in sensing and detection of human or animal motion, sensing distance is about 4-5 me...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Gravity: Analog Water Pressure Sensor
SKU: DF-SEN0257 | Brand: DFRobot
The Gravity Analog Water Pressure Sensor measures water or gas pressure and outputs a linear 0.5–4.5 V analogue signal proportional to the applied pressure (0–1.6 MPa). Using the DFRobot Gravity 3-pin interface, it co...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Gravity: Digital Piezo Disk Vibration Sensor
SKU: DF-DFR0052 | Brand: DFRobot
The DFRobot Vibration Sensor buffers a piezoelectric transducer that responds to strain changes by generating a measurable output voltage change which is propotional with the strength of vibration.So you can know the...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Reed Switch
SKU: SF-COM-08642 | Brand: SparkFun
This is a small device called a reed switch. When the device is exposed to a magnetic field, the two ferrous materials inside the switch pull together and the switch closes. When the magnetic field is removed, the ...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Real Time Clock Module (DS1307) V1.1
SKU: DF-DFR0151 | Brand: DFRobot
The DS1307 Real Time Clock module developed by one of our designers: Waiman. The module comes fully assembled and pre-programmed with the current time (ok, so it's our current time - MST). The included Lithium co...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
TMP36 - Analog Temperature sensor [TMP36]
SKU: AF-165 | Brand: Adafruit
The TMP36 is a low-power analog temperature sensor that outputs a voltage proportional to ambient temperature. It operates on 2.7–5.5V and requires no external calibration — simply read the analog voltage and convert ...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
Gravity: HUSKYLENS 2 - 6 TOPS LLM MCP AI Vision Sensor (20+ Models, Deploy Custom Models)
SKU: DF-SEN0638 | Brand: DFRobot
HUSKYLENS 2 is a powerful AI vision sensor with a 1.6GHz dual-core processor and 6 TOPS AI accelerator. With 20+ built-in AI models and the ability to train and deploy custom YOLO models, it brings advanced computer v...
Delivered by Mon 15 Jun
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