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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Rainbow HAT
SKU: PR-PIM242 | Brand: Little Bird
Rainbow HAT has a buffet of sensors, inputs and displays to explore Android ThingsTM. Use it as a weather station, a clock, a timer or stopwatch, a mood light, or endless other things. We've worked with the Android...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Rainbow HAT
SKU: PR-PIM253 | Brand: Little Bird
Rainbow HAT is a feature-packed add-on board for the Raspberry Pi, loaded with sensors, inputs, displays, and LEDs. Use it as a weather station, clock, timer, mood light, or as a hands-on introduction to multiple Pi c...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Adafruit BME680 - Temperature, Humidity, Pressure and Gas Sensor
SKU: AF-3660 | Brand: Adafruit
The BME680 from Bosch delivers comprehensive environmental sensing in a single compact package. This precision sensor measures temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and VOC gas levels, all accessible over I2C or...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
Adafruit ADXL343 + ADT7410 Sensor FeatherWing
SKU: AF-4147 | Brand: Adafruit
Add motion and precision temperature sensing to any Feather board with this all-in-one sensor FeatherWing from Adafruit. It combines two high-quality Analog Devices sensors — the ADXL343 triple-axis accelerometer and ...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
INA169 Analog DC Current Sensor Breakout - 60V 5A Max
SKU: AF-1164 | Brand: Adafruit
This breakout board will solve all your current-monitoring problems. Instead of struggling with a multimeter, you can just use the handy INA169 chip on this breakout to both measure both the DC current draw and have a...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
Flat Vibration Switch - Breadboard friendly
SKU: AF-4081 | Brand: Adafruit
This flat vibration switch is a low-sensitivity, directional trigger that closes its circuit when bumped from the side. Inside, a soft spring coiled around a metal pin makes contact when vibration or impact occurs, ac...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
Standalone Momentary Capacitive Touch Sensor Breakout [AT42QT1010]
SKU: AF-1374 | Brand: Adafruit
This breakout board is the simplest way to create a project with a single "momentary" capacitive touch sensor. No microcontroller is required here - just power with 1.8 to 5.5VDC and touch the pad to activate the sens...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
AM2320 Digital Temperature and Humidity Sensor
SKU: PI-COM1700 | Brand: Pimoroni
The AM2320 is a digital temperature and humidity sensor with an I2C interface. Its straightforward I2C communication makes it easy to connect to any Raspberry Pi or Arduino, and it works alongside other I2C sensors an...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
9-axis compass module CJMCU-MPU9150
SKU: LB-LS1026 | Brand: Little Bird
The CJMCU-MPU9150 is a 9-axis motion tracking breakout board based on the InvenSense MPU-9150 System in Package (SiP). It combines a 3-axis gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer, and 3-axis digital compass (magnetometer) in...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Gravity: I2C BME680 Environmental Sensor (VOC, Temperature, Humidity, Barometer)
SKU: DF-SEN0248 | Brand: DFRobot
DFRobot BME680 Environmental Sensor is a low power gas, pressure, temperature & humidity sensor based on BOSCH BME680 sensor. It is a 4-in-1 multi-functional MEMS environmental sensor which integrates VOC (Volatil...
Delivered by Mon 12 Oct
Adafruit SGP30 Air Quality Sensor Breakout - VOC and eCO2
SKU: AF-3709 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit SGP30 is a multi-pixel MOX (metal-oxide) gas sensor from Sensirion that measures Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOC) and equivalent CO2 (eCO2) for indoor air quality monitoring. With fully calibrated ...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - HTU21D
SKU: SF-SEN-12064 | Brand: SparkFun
The HTU21D is a low-cost, easy to use, highly accurate, digital humidity and temperature sensor. This sensor is ideal for environmental sensing and data logging and perfect for a weather stations or humidor control sy...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Gravity: Analog Sound Level Meter
SKU: DF-SEN0232 | Brand: DFRobot
The Gravity Analog Sound Level Meter is an Arduino-compatible decibel meter that accurately measures environmental noise levels. It uses an instrumentation-grade circuit with a low-noise microphone for high-precision ...
Delivered by Mon 12 Oct
MCP9808 High Accuracy I2C Temperature Sensor Breakout Board
SKU: AF-1782 | Brand: Adafruit
This I2C digital temperature sensor is one of the more accurate/precise we've ever seen, with a typical accuracy of ±0.25°C over the sensor's -40°C to +125°C range and precision of +0.0625°C. They work great with any ...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
AltIMU-10 v5 Gyro, Accelerometer, Compass, and Altimeter (LSM6DS33, LIS3MDL, and LPS25H Carrier)
SKU: PL-2739 | Brand: Pololu
The Pololu AltIMU-10 v5 is a compact inertial measurement unit (IMU) and altimeter that combines a gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, and barometric pressure sensor on a single board. It provides ten independent ...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Pololu 38 kHz IR Proximity Sensor, Fixed Gain, High Brightness
SKU: PL-2578 | Brand: Pololu
This module features a fixed-gain, 38 kHz modulated IR sensor and a corresponding IR LED with oscillator circuit to make a tiny proximity sensor. This high-brightness version draws an average of 16 mA at 5&...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Alcohol Gas Sensor MQ-3
SKU: PL-1634 | Brand: Pololu
The MQ-3 is a semiconductor gas sensor that detects alcohol vapour at concentrations from 0.04 mg/L to 4 mg/L — a range suitable for building a breathalyser. It provides a simple analog voltage output that requires on...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
VL53L0X Time-of-Flight Distance Sensor Carrier with Voltage Regulator, 200cm Max
SKU: PL-2490 | Brand: Pololu
This sensor is a carrier/breakout board for ST’s VL53L0X laser-ranging sensor, which measures the range to a target object up to 2 m away. The VL53L0X uses time-of-flight measurements of infrared pulses for rangi...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Light Sensor - BH1750
SKU: DF-SEN0097 | Brand: DFRobot
This is a BH1750 light intensity sensor breakout board with a 16 bit AD converter built-in which can directly output a digital signal, there is no need for complicated calculations. This is a more acurate and easier ...
Delivered by Mon 12 Oct
Gravity:Digital Infrared Distance Sensor (10cm)
SKU: DF-SEN0042 | Brand: DFRobot
A compact digital infrared distance sensor from DFRobot's Gravity range, designed for edge detection and close-range proximity sensing. It detects objects within 1–10 cm and outputs a simple digital HIGH/LOW signal — ...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
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