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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SparkFun Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout - H3LIS331DL
SKU: SF-SEN-14480 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun H3LIS331DL Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout is a low-power, high-g accelerometer with I2C and SPI interface options. Though not necessarily good at detecting minute changes, the H3LIS331DL is great for ...
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10 DOF Mems IMU Sensor (Arduino Compatible)
SKU: DF-SEN0140 | Brand: DFRobot
The DFRobot 10 DOF MEMS IMU Sensor combines four sensors on a single compact board — the ADXL345 accelerometer, ITG-3205 gyroscope, HMC5883L magnetometer, and BMP085 barometric pressure sensor. Together they provide 1...
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One-Wire Ambient Temperature Sensor - MAX31820
SKU: SF-SEN-14049 | Brand: SparkFun
The MAX31820 ambient temperature sensor provides 9-bit to 12-bit Celsius temperature measurements with ±0.5°C accuracy over a +10°C to +45°C temperature range. Over its entire -55°C to +125°C operating range, the devi...
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SparkFun Capacitive Touch Breakout - AT42QT1010
SKU: SF-SEN-12041 | Brand: SparkFun
If you need to add user input without using a button, then a capacitive touch interface might be the answer. The AT42QT1010 SparkFun Capacitive Touch Breakout offers a single capacitive touch button with easy-to-use d...
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SparkFun Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout - LIS3DH
SKU: SF-SEN-13963 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun LIS3DH breakout is a low-power, three-axis accelerometer with 12-bit resolution, ideal for adding motion and orientation detection to your projects. It communicates over I2C or SPI and includes three addi...
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SparkFun OpenScale
SKU: SF-SEN-13261 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun OpenScale is an open-source weight measurement board designed for load cells. Simply connect a four-wire or five-wire load cell of any capacity, plug into USB, open a serial terminal at 9,600 bps, and you...
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SparkFun IR Thermometer Evaluation Board - MLX90614
SKU: SF-SEN-10740 | Brand: SparkFun
An evaluation board for the MLX90614 non-contact infrared thermometer sensor. It pairs the MLX90614 with an ATmega328 running at 3.3 V (8 MHz Arduino bootloader), giving you a ready-to-use IR temperature sensor with s...
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SparkFun RGB and Gesture Sensor - APDS-9960
SKU: SF-SEN-12787 | Brand: SparkFun
This is the SparkFun RGB and Gesture Sensor, a small breakout board with a built in APDS-9960 sensor that offers ambient light and color measuring, proximity detection, and touchless gesture sensing. With this RGB and...
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TSSP77038 38kHz IR Demodulator Breakout
SKU: AF-5940 | Brand: Adafruit
This breakout uses Vishay's TSSP77038 infrared demodulator to give you the raw demodulated output from a 38kHz IR signal, without the extra filtering used in typical remote-control receivers. That makes it a handy cho...
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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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Qwiic Soil Moisture Sensor
SKU: SF-SEN-24409 | Brand: SparkFun
This compact breakout board measures moisture in soil and similar materials using two large exposed pads as conductivity probes. As the soil gets wetter, conductivity between the pads increases, resistance drops, and ...
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Gravity SFA40 Formaldehyde (HCHO) Sensor
SKU: DF-SEN0661 | Brand: DFRobot
This Gravity-series module is a high-precision electrochemical sensor for monitoring formaldehyde (HCHO) in indoor air. It is built around Sensirion’s SFA40 sensing chip and is designed to selectively detect HCHO whil...
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LIS3DH Micro Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-29529 | Brand: SparkFun
This ultra-small Qwiic-enabled breakout adds three-axis acceleration sensing to compact projects using the LIS3DH, a smart, low-power capacitive micro-machined accelerometer with 12-bit resolution. It can be used for ...
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DFRobot SEN0704 6x6 Flexible Tactile Pressure Sensor - UART
SKU: DF-SEN0704 | Brand: DFRobot
This flexible thin-film array gives robots, wearables and HCI projects a compact way to sense where pressure is being applied. It integrates 36 independent sensing points into a 15 x 15mm active area, enabling real-ti...
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VCNL4200 Long Distance IR Proximity & Light Sensor Breakout
SKU: AF-6064 | Brand: Adafruit
Need approximate distance sensing over tens of centimetres to around a metre, plus ambient light measurement from the same board? This breakout carries Vishay’s VCNL4200, a two-in-one IR proximity and ambient light se...
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ScoutMakes DRV5032 Digital Hall Effect Sensor Breakout
SKU: AF-6051 | Brand: Adafruit
Add magnetic sensing to your project with this breakout built around the Texas Instruments DRV5032 digital Hall effect sensor. Its digital output changes when the magnetic flux density threshold is crossed, making it ...
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