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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Particulate Matter Sensor - SPS30
SKU: SF-SEN-15103 | Brand: SparkFun
The Sensirion SPS30 is a compact, high-quality optical particle sensor that uses laser scattering and Sensirion's innovative contamination-resistance technology for superior binning and particle measurement. It measur...
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PureThermal Mini Pro JST-SR (with FLIR Lepton 3.5)
SKU: SF-DEV-17544 | Brand: SparkFun
The new PureThermal Mini Pro JST-SR with Thermal by FLIR is a hackable thermal camera for the FLIR Lepton thermal imaging camera core. Just like its PureThermal 2 predecessor, it ships pre-configured to operate as a p...
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SparkFun Spectral Sensor Breakout - AS7263 NIR (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-14351 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun AS7263 breakout brings near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to your microcontroller projects. The sensor measures six discrete NIR wavelengths, allowing you to characterise how different materials absorb and ...
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SparkFun Spectral Sensor Breakout - AS7262 Visible (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-14347 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun AS7262 Visible Spectral Sensor Breakout brings spectroscopy to the palm of your hand, making it easy to measure and characterise how different materials absorb and reflect different wavelengths of light. ...
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SparkFun Micro Pressure Sensor - BMP581 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-20171 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Qwiic BMP581 Pressure Sensor is a micro-sized, absolute pressure sensor breakout from Bosch Sensortec. The BMP581 boasts exceptional resolution and accuracy (down to 1/64Pa) and uses on-chip linearization...
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SparkFun Pressure Sensor - BMP581 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-20170 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Qwiic BMP581 Pressure Sensor is a standard-sized, 1in. by 1in. absolute pressure sensor breakout from Bosch Sensortec. The BMP581 boasts exceptional resolution (down to 1/64Pa) and accuracy while maintain...
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Ultrasonic Distance Sensor with I2C Interface - RCWL-1601
SKU: AF-4742 | Brand: Adafruit
This ultrasonic distance sensor uses I2C communication instead of the traditional trigger/pulse interface, making it easy to integrate with microcontrollers and microcomputers that lack fast GPIO or hardware UART. It ...
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Fermion: ICG 20660L Accel+Gyro 6-Axis IMU Module (Breakout)
SKU: DF-SEN0443 | Brand: DFRobot
The ICG-20660L is a high-precision 6-axis IMU module that integrates a 3-axis accelerometer(±2/4/8/16g), a 3-axis gyroscope(±125/250/500dps), and on-chip 16-bit ADCs. With up to ±1% initial sensitivity and low noise(6...
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Garmin LIDAR-Lite v4 LED - Distance Measurement Sensor (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-18009 | Brand: SparkFun
The LIDAR-Lite v4 Qwiic from GARMIN is a high-performance, wireless optical distance measurement sensor that doesn't require any soldering to get started. This is the ideal solution for drone, robot, IoT, or unmanned ...
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SparkFun Digital Temperature Sensor - TMP102 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-16304 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun TMP102 Qwiic breakout provides accurate digital temperature readings over I2C with minimal wiring. Based on the Texas Instruments TMP102, the sensor delivers 0.0625 °C resolution and ±0.5 °C accuracy, com...
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TF Mini Plus(ToF) Laser Range Sensor
SKU: DF-SEN0309 | Brand: DFRobot
TFmini Plus is a great improvement over the original TFmini. It is a small single-point ranging sensor with unique optical and electrical algorithms, which can realize accurate and quick distance measurement as well a...
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M5StickC ToF HAT(VL53L0X)
SKU: M5-U072 | Brand: Little Bird
The ToF HAT is a high-precision laser-ranging sensor designed for the M5StickC development platform. Built around the VL53L0X Time-of-Flight module and a 940 nm VCSEL emitter, it delivers fast, accurate distance measu...
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NODE Audio Dev Module (WM8978, DHT12)
SKU: M5-M017 | Brand: Little Bird
Description Node, like its namesake, is a smart node with full-featured functions in a IoT application scenarios. Together with M5Stack Core, it can be programmed as an intelligent speaker like Echo. Node provides ...
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I2CXL-MaxSonar-WR(MB7040)
SKU: DF-SEN0274 | Brand: DFRobot
The weather resistant MB7040 I2CXL-MaxSonar-WR sensor features centimeter resolution and an I2C interface, and provides short to long distance detection and range information from 20cm to 765cm for the nearest detecta...
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AMG8832 Infrared Array Sensor
SKU: ET-2475261 | Brand: Little Bird
The Panasonic AMG8832 Grid-EYE is an infrared array sensor evaluation board featuring a 64-pixel (8×8) thermal imaging sensor in an all-in-one SMD package. It detects absolute surface temperatures from -20°C to +100°C...
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Microstack Accelerometer Add-On
SKU: ET-2434229 | Brand: Little Bird
The Microstack accelerometer provides easy, plug and play integration and development for designs, requiring an accelerometer function to all platforms compatible with the Microstack framework. Microstack acceleromet...
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Touch pHAT
SKU: PR-PIM280 | Brand: Little Bird
Six touch-sensitive buttons to use for whatever your heart desires, with added LEDs (did you expect anything less?) Touch pHAT has six capacitive touch buttons, each with a bright white LED, designed to be complete...
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Skywriter
SKU: PR-PIM062 | Brand: Little Bird
The big brother to the Skywriter HAT - Skywriter adds 3D gesture sensing to your project! Using our Python and Arduino libraries you can read off the positional data (x, y, z) and common gestures like ...
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SparkFun IR Array Breakout - 55 Degree FOV, MLX90640 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-14844 | Brand: SparkFun
It’s time to say hip hip array for this IR Breakout! The MLX90640 SparkFun IR Array Breakout is equipped with a 32x24 array of thermopile sensors creating, in essence, a low resolution thermal imaging camera. With thi...
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Pycom Pysense - Sensor shield for WiPy, SiPy, and LoPy
SKU: PI-PYC006 | Brand: Pimoroni
The Pycom Pysense is a sensor-packed expansion shield that fits all Pycom multi-network modules — including the WiPy, SiPy, and LoPy. It gives you a head start on IoT projects by combining five sensors, a LiPo charger...
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