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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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 Thu 18 Jun
LM75A Temperature Sensor I2C Interface Development Board Module For Raspberry Pi
SKU: LB-LS3579 | Brand: Little Bird
LM75A Temperature Sensor I2C Interface Development Board Module LM75A is a high-speed I2C interface, temperature sensor, in the temperature range -55 ? ~ + 125. The temperature was directly converted to a digital sign...
Delivered by Thu 18 Jun
Ultra Thin 10K Thermistor - B3950 NTC
SKU: AF-4890 | Brand: Adafruit
Need to measure something with a very slim sensor? This precision 10K thermistor is an inexpensive way to measure temperature in a small gap, or taped to a flat surface, it's only 0.2mm wide!The resistance in 25°C is ...
Delivered by Thu 18 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 Thu 18 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 Thu 18 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 Thu 18 Jun
Little Bird 45 in 1 sensor kit for Arduino
SKU: LB-LR20 | Brand: Little Bird
Package included: 1 x Arduino PS2 Joystick game controller module 1 x Infrared sensor receiver module 1 x Laser head sensor module 1 x Temperature and humidity sensor module 1 x Infrared emission sensor module 1 x...
Delivered by Thu 18 Jun
Light and Colour Sensor
SKU: LB-LS1697 | Brand: Little Bird
This is the Light and Colour Sensor, a small breakout board with a built in APDS-9960 sensor that offers ambient light and colour measuring, proximity detection, and touch-less gesture sensing. With this Light...
Delivered by Thu 18 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 Thu 18 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 Thu 18 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 Thu 18 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 Thu 18 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 Thu 18 Jun
Arduino Line Trace Sensor Module
SKU: LB-LR0005 | Brand: Little Bird
The Line Trace Sensor Module uses an infrared emitter/detector pair to measure the reflectivity of a surface below it. When the reflectivity exceeds an adjustable threshold, the output goes low — making it ideal for b...
Delivered by Thu 18 Jun
Load Cell - 5kg, Straight Bar
SKU: LB-LR0399 | Brand: Little Bird
This straight bar load cell (strain gauge) converts applied force or weight into a proportional electrical signal, with a maximum capacity of 5kg. It uses four strain gauges arranged in a Wheatstone bridge configurati...
Delivered by Thu 18 Jun
One Wire Digital Temperature Sensor - DS18B20
SKU: SF-SEN-00245 | Brand: SparkFun
The DS18B20 is a digital temperature sensor from Maxim (now Analog Devices) that communicates over a 1-Wire bus. It reports temperature in degrees Celsius with 9 to 12-bit configurable resolution. Each sensor has a un...
Delivered by Thu 18 Jun
Adafruit TSL2591 High Dynamic Range Digital Light Sensor
SKU: AF-1980 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit TSL2591 is an ultra-high-range digital light sensor with a massive 600,000,000:1 dynamic range. It features both infrared and full-spectrum photodiodes, allowing you to separately measure infrared, full-s...
Delivered by Thu 18 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 Thu 18 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 Thu 18 Jun
Adafruit VL53L4CD Time of Flight Distance Sensor - ~1 to 1300mm
SKU: AF-5396 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit VL53L4CD is a Time-of-Flight (ToF) distance sensor from ST that combines short-range and medium-range sensing in one chip. It measures from approximately 1 mm right up to 1300 mm, bridging the gap between...
Delivered by Thu 18 Jun
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