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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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 Wed 5 Aug
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 Wed 5 Aug
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 Wed 5 Aug
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 Wed 5 Aug
Little Bird 45 in 1 sensor kit for Arduino
SKU: LB-LR20 | Brand: Little Bird
This kit brings together a wide range of sensor and interface modules for Arduino projects, experiments and classroom learning. It includes input sensors, output modules, switching modules, power modules and useful bu...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
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 Wed 5 Aug
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 Wed 5 Aug
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 Wed 5 Aug
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 Wed 5 Aug
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 Wed 5 Aug
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 Wed 5 Aug
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 Wed 5 Aug
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 Wed 5 Aug
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 Wed 5 Aug
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 Wed 5 Aug
Adafruit Sensirion SHT40 Temperature Humidity Sensor - STEMMA QT / Qwiic
SKU: AF-4885 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Sensirion SHT40 is a high-accuracy temperature and humidity sensor featuring a true I2C interface for simple two-wire communication. Part of the fourth generation of Sensirion's acclaimed SHT sensor famil...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
Temperature Sensor Module DS18B20
SKU: LB-24-TEMP | Brand: Little Bird
A pre-wired DS18B20 digital temperature sensor on a breakout module with three labelled pins for easy connection. The DS18B20 uses the 1-Wire protocol, requiring only a single data line to communicate temperature read...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
Octopus PIR Sensor Brick
SKU: EF-EF04055 | Brand: ElecFreaks
OCTOPUS PIR Sensor module is a type of electronic building block based on AM412 pyroelectric digital smart sensor. It can be used in sensing and detection of human or animal motion, sensing distance is about 4-5 me...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
Little Bird L3G4200D based 3 Axis Gyro
SKU: LB-LR0401 | Brand: Little Bird
This compact module is built around the L3G4200D, a low-power 3-axis angular rate sensor with temperature data output. It measures the rate of change in rotation on the X, Y and Z axes, making it useful for motion sen...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
E-Textiles ADXL335 three axis acceleration sensor
SKU: LB-ETEXTILEADXL335 | Brand: Little Bird
This three-axis accelerometer is designed for e-textiles projects and is based on the ADXL335 MEMS accelerometer from Analog Devices. It can be used to detect joint movement, inclination and vibration.The board provid...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
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