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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VCNL4030 Proximity and Lux Sensor Breakout - STEMMA QT/Qwiic
SKU: AF-6491 | Brand: Adafruit
This compact breakout combines a Vishay VCNL4030 proximity sensor and ambient light sensor on one board. It can measure proximity from 0 to 300mm (about 12 inches) and light from 0.004 to 16,768 lux, making it a handy...
Delivered by Fri 3 Jul
MLX90632 FIR Remote Thermal Temperature Sensor
SKU: AF-6403 | Brand: Adafruit
This compact breakout uses Melexis' MLX90632 FIR sensor to read the temperature of a target without making contact. It's handy for checking surfaces that are hot, cold, moving, delicate or awkward to reach with a prob...
Delivered by Fri 3 Jul
STCC4 + SHT41 CO2, Temperature & Humidity Sensor
SKU: AF-6478 | Brand: Adafruit
This compact breakout combines the STCC4 CO2 sensor with a Sensirion SHT41 temperature and humidity sensor for convenient indoor air monitoring. The STCC4 measures true CO2 using a thermal conductivity method rather t...
Delivered by Fri 3 Jul
Adafruit QMC5883P Triple-Axis Magnetometer
SKU: AF-6388 | Brand: Adafruit
This compact breakout makes it easy to measure magnetic fields in three axes for compass, navigation and orientation projects. It is built around the QMC5883P, a magnetometer commonly used in quadcopter and robotics d...
Delivered by Fri 3 Jul
TCS3430/TCS34303 Ambient Tri-Stimulus Colour Sensor
SKU: AF-6479 | Brand: Adafruit
This breakout brings ambient light tri-stimulus colour sensing to your project using CIE XYZ plus an IR channel, rather than the more common RGB-style approach. It is designed for applications where you want access to...
Delivered by Fri 3 Jul
GPS-RTK Board - NEO-M8P-2 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-GPS-15005 | Brand: SparkFun
Built around the u-blox NEO-M8P-2, this breakout brings high-accuracy GNSS and GPS positioning with RTK support to the Qwiic ecosystem. It’s designed for applications where standard GPS accuracy isn’t enough, with RTK...
Delivered by Wed 24 Jun
LIS3DH Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-29528 | Brand: SparkFun
Add motion sensing to your project with this Qwiic-enabled LIS3DH breakout. The LIS3DH is a smart, low-power, three-axis capacitive micro-machined accelerometer with 12-bit resolution, suited to translation, motion, o...
Delivered by Wed 24 Jun
FPC2534 Qwiic Fingerprint Sensor
SKU: SF-SEN-29854 | Brand: SparkFun
This breakout brings secure fingerprint authentication to embedded projects while keeping the complex biometric work on the sensor itself. Built around the FPC2534 from Fingerprint Cards AB, it handles enrolment, encr...
Delivered by Wed 24 Jun
Indoor Air Quality Combo Sensor - SCD41/SEN55 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-25200 | Brand: SparkFun
Build a detailed indoor air monitor with this Qwiic combo board, pairing Sensirion’s SCD41 CO2 sensor with the SEN55 environmental sensor node. Together they measure CO2, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), particulate...
Delivered by Wed 24 Jun
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...
Delivered by Wed 24 Jun
Gravity: STCC4 True Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Sensor (3-in-1 Air Quality Monitoring, 400 ~ 5000ppm)
SKU: DF-SEN0678 | Brand: DFRobot
This Gravity air quality module uses Sensirion’s STCC4 gas sensing chip to directly measure carbon dioxide with the thermal conductivity measurement principle. It is designed for compact, cost-effective indoor monitor...
Delivered by Wed 24 Jun
Gravity 8x8 Matrix ToF Distance Sensor - I2C/UART
SKU: DF-SEN0628 | Brand: DFRobot
This compact 3D depth-sensing module sits between a simple single-point distance sensor and a full depth camera. It uses an 8×8 Time-of-Flight matrix to return depth data from 64 points, giving your robot or interacti...
Delivered by Wed 24 Jun
Fermion BMP585 Pressure & Temperature Sensor - I2C/SPI/I3C
SKU: DF-SEN0666 | Brand: DFRobot
This compact Fermion breakout brings the Bosch BMP585 MEMS pressure and temperature sensor to a tiny board for projects where space, power use and reliable environmental sensing matter. It measures barometric pressure...
Delivered by Wed 24 Jun
Fermion BMV080 Fanless PM1/PM2.5/PM10 Air Quality Sensor
SKU: DF-SEN0663 | Brand: DFRobot
This ultra-compact particulate matter sensor breakout is built around the Bosch BMV080 sensing unit, using laser-based light scattering with a fanless measurement principle. It can monitor PM1, PM2.5 and PM10 mass con...
Delivered by Wed 24 Jun
Fermion BMP581 Barometric Pressure & Temperature Sensor
SKU: DF-SEN0667 | Brand: DFRobot
This compact Fermion module is built around Bosch Sensortec’s BMP581 high-performance barometric pressure sensor chip. It measures pressure and temperature with high precision, offering ±0.3 hPa typical absolute press...
Delivered by Wed 24 Jun
Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout - LIS3DH with Headers
SKU: SF-SEN-20659 | Brand: SparkFun
Add 3-axis motion sensing to your project with this LIS3DH accelerometer breakout from SparkFun. The LIS3DH is a low-power, capacitive micro-machined accelerometer with 12 bits of resolution, suitable for detecting tr...
Delivered by Wed 24 Jun
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 ...
Delivered by Wed 24 Jun
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...
Delivered by Wed 24 Jun
LSM6DS3TR-C 6-DoF Accelerometer + Gyro IMU Breakout
SKU: AF-4503 | Brand: Adafruit
Add motion and orientation sensing to your project with this compact 6 Degree of Freedom IMU breakout built around the ST LSM6DS3TR-C. It combines a 3-axis accelerometer for measuring gravity and acceleration with a 3...
Delivered by Fri 3 Jul
SGP41 VOC & NOx Gas Sensor Breakout
SKU: AF-6455 | Brand: Adafruit
Build a digital nose for indoor air quality projects with this SGP41 gas sensor breakout. The Sensirion SGP41 is a fully integrated MOX gas sensor with I2C interfacing, so you do not need to manage heater control or a...
Delivered by Fri 3 Jul
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