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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LilyPad Light Sensor
SKU: SF-DEV-14629 | Brand: SparkFun
The LilyPad Light Sensor is a sewable breakout board with an ALS-PT19 light sensor built in and ready to use right away. Each sensor outputs voltage between 0V and 3.3V depending on the level of ambient light shi...
Delivered by Mon 12 Oct
Bourns Absolute Encoder (EAW0J-B24-AE0128L)
SKU: SF-COM-15036 | Brand: SparkFun
The Bourns Absolute Encoder is a digital control knob that provides 128 unique results evenly spaced around a full circle. It is designed as a control panel knob but can be adapted for other uses. This can be a good a...
Delivered by Mon 12 Oct
Thermocouple Type-K Glass Braid Insulated - 5m
SKU: AF-3895 | Brand: Adafruit
Thermocouples are best used for measuring temperatures that can go above 100°C. This is a bare-wire bead-probe which can measure air or surface temperatures. Most inexpensive thermocouples have a vinyl covering whi...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
High Temp Waterproof DS18B20 Digital Temperature Sensor - 3m long
SKU: AF-3846 | Brand: Adafruit
This is a pre-wired and waterproofed version of the DS18B20 sensor made with a PTFE wire cable. Handy for when you need to measure something far away, or in wet conditions. This sensor is a little more expensive th...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
SparkFun IR Array Breakout - 110 Degree FOV, MLX90640 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-14843 | 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...
Delivered by Mon 12 Oct
Gravity:Digital Magnetic Sensor
SKU: DF-DFR0033 | Brand: DFRobot
what's the best way to detect the magnet? Use anther magnet. But it's not sensitive enough. You have to feel it by youself.Right.This magnetic sensor knows whether there is a magnetic object nearby or not. And it c...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Infrared Distance Sensor Bracket
SKU: DF-FIT0032 | Brand: DFRobot
INTRODUCTIONA This bracket is designed for Gravity: Arduino Adjustable Infrared Distance Sensor which can be used for the obstacle avoidance or objection detection. It provides a easy ins...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Adafruit ATSAMD09 Breakout with seesaw
SKU: AF-3657 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit ATSAMD09 Breakout with seesaw is a versatile I2C peripheral board built on the Adafruit seesaw framework. Seesaw is a near-universal converter that lets you add GPIO, ADC, PWM, and more to any I2C-capable...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
SparkFun GPS Breakout - XA1110 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-GPS-14414 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun XA1110 GPS Breakout is a small I2C-supported module built for easy hookup, thanks to our Qwiic Connect System. Equipped with the XA1110 GPS module from GTOP, this board utilizes the MediaTek MT3333 chips...
Delivered by Thu 1 Oct
Adafruit INA219 FeatherWing
SKU: AF-3650 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit INA219 FeatherWing is a high-side current and voltage sensor that stacks onto any Feather development board. Using the INA219B chip over I2C, it measures both DC current draw and bus voltage with 1% preci...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
Maxbotix Ultrasonic Rangefinder - LV-EZ4 [LV-EZ4]
SKU: AF-982 | Brand: Adafruit
The LV-EZ4 from MaxBotix is a compact ultrasonic rangefinder that detects objects from 0 to 254 inches (6.45 metres), with calibrated range output from 6 to 254 inches at 1-inch resolution. Objects closer than 6 inche...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
MPL115A2 - I2C Barometric Pressure/Temperature Sensor
SKU: AF-992 | Brand: Adafruit
This pressure sensor from Freescale is a great low-cost sensing solution for measuring barometric pressure. At 1.5 hPa resolution, it's not as precise as our favorite pressure sensor, the BMx280 series, which has u...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
ADXL326 - 5V ready triple-axis accelerometer (+-16g analog out)
SKU: AF-1018 | Brand: Adafruit
A wide-range triple-axis accelerometer breakout featuring the Analog Devices ADXL326. With a ±16 g measurement range and analog outputs for X, Y, and Z axes, this sensor is ideal for detecting high-impact motion, vibr...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
IR distance sensor includes cable (20cm-150cm) [GP2Y0A02YK]
SKU: AF-1031 | Brand: Adafruit
This SHARP distance sensor bounces IR off objects to determine how far away they are. It returns an analog voltage that can be used to determine how close the nearest object is. Comes with 8" long 3-JST interface wire...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
Adafruit Wide-Range Triple-axis Magnetometer - MLX90393
SKU: AF-4022 | Brand: Adafruit
Measure invisible magnetic fields with the Adafruit Wide-Range Triple-axis Magnetometer, featuring the MLX90393 sensor. With 16-bit resolution across all three axes and a dynamic range of ±5 mT to ±50 mT, this sensor ...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
SparkFun GPS-RTK2 Board - ZED-F9P (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-GPS-15136 | Brand: SparkFun
With GPS you are able to know where you are, where you’re going, and how to get there anywhere on Earth within 30 seconds. This means the higher the accuracy the better! GPS Real Time Kinematics (RTK) has mastered dia...
Delivered by Mon 12 Oct
Garmin LIDAR-Lite Optical Distant Sensor - V3
SKU: AF-4058 | Brand: Adafruit
You've heard about the sensors in the news, when used in self-driving cars, and now you can have your own! Garmin's LIDAR-Lite V3 is the ideal high-performance (but compact) optical distant measurement sensor solution...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
Standalone 5-Pad Capacitive Touch Sensor Breakout - AT42QT1070
SKU: AF-1362 | Brand: Adafruit
This breakout board is the simplest way to create a project with mutiple capacitive touch sensors. No microcontroller is required here - just power with 1.8 to 5.5VDC and connect up to 5 conductive pads to the 5 left-...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
CO₂ Humidity and Temperature Sensor - SCD30
SKU: SF-SEN-15112 | Brand: SparkFun
The SCD30 from Sensirion is a high quality Nondispersive Infrared (NDIR) based CO₂ sensor capable of detecting 400 to 10000ppm with an accuracy of ±(30ppm+3%). In order to improve accuracy the SCD30 has temperature an...
Delivered by Mon 12 Oct
US-100 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor - 3V or 5V Logic
SKU: AF-4019 | Brand: Adafruit
If you're like me, you've dreamed of being a dolphin - smoothly gliding through the water. Using your echo-location abilities to detect tasty fish treats. Until genetic modifications catches up with our desires,...
Delivered by Fri 23 Oct
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