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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Fermion: AHT20 Temperature and Humidity Sensor (Breakout)
SKU: DF-SEN0527 | Brand: DFRobot
The Fermion AHT20 is a high-precision, low-cost temperature and humidity sensor breakout from DFRobot. Built around an improved MEMS semiconductor capacitive humidity sensor element, it communicates over a standard I2...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
SparkFun Micro Magnetometer - MMC5983MA (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-19921 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Qwiic Micro MMC5983MA Magnetometer is a micro-sized, 0.75in. by 0.30in. sensor that utilizes the highly sensitive triple-axis magnetometer by MEMSIC. We've attached the magnetometer IC onto an incredibly ...
Delivered by Fri 14 Aug
Adafruit Right Angle VEML7700 Lux Sensor - I2C Light Sensor
SKU: AF-5378 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Right Angle VEML7700 Lux Sensor is an I2C ambient light sensor that measures calibrated lux values rather than arbitrary brightness numbers. Its unique right-angle orientation senses light coming parallel...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
SHT30 Temperature And Humidity Sensor - Wired Enclosed Shell
SKU: AF-5064 | Brand: Adafruit
The SHT30-D sensor has an excellent ±2% relative humidity and ±0.5°C accuracy for most uses. Unlike earlier SHT sensors, this sensor has a true I2C interface.The enclosed box is a Sensiron SHT-30 digita...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
Adafruit MPR121 12-Key Capacitive Touch Sensor Gator Breakout - STEMMA QT / Qwiic
SKU: AF-4830 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit MPR121 Gator Breakout adds 12 capacitive touch inputs to any microcontroller project — no soldering required. With large alligator/croc-clip friendly pads and STEMMA QT / Qwiic connectors, simply clip con...
Delivered by Thu 27 Aug
Magnetic Switch
SKU: DF-SEN0387 | Brand: DFRobot
This magnetic switch consists of two parts: a reed switch sensor with cable and a magnet trigger in a plastic housing. When the magnet is brought within approximately 1 cm of the sensor, the reed switch closes, allowi...
Delivered by Fri 14 Aug
BNO055 Intelligent 9-axis Sensor Module
SKU: DF-SEN0374 | Brand: DFRobot
BNO055 is a new sensor IC for implementing an intelligent 9-axis Absolute Orientation Sensor. It is a System in Package, integrating a triaxial 14-bit accelerometer, a triaxial 16-bit gyroscope, a triaxial geomagnetic...
Delivered by Fri 14 Aug
Basic Fingerprint Sensor With Socket Header Cable
SKU: AF-4690 | Brand: Adafruit
Secure your project with biometrics - this all-in-one optical fingerprint sensor will make adding fingerprint detection and verification super simple. It's easy to use and more affordable than ever!These modules are t...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
SparkFun micro:climate kit for micro:bit - v3.0
SKU: SF-KIT-16274 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun micro:climate kit is a full weather station kit that is built on top of the weather:bit carrier board. Unlike previous weather kits we've carried, this micro:climate kit is Qwiic enabled and includes o...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
Octopus Temperature And Humidity Sensor
SKU: EF-EF04019 | Brand: ElecFreaks
Temperature and humidity sensor is a module based on DHT11 digital temperature and humidity sensing element. Simple design, and sensitive to the ambient temperature and humidity changes, it can be used for temperature...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
Adafruit 9-DOF Absolute Orientation IMU Fusion Breakout - BNO055
SKU: AF-2472 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit BNO055 breakout delivers complete 9-DOF orientation sensing with onboard sensor fusion — no complex algorithms to write yourself. The Bosch BNO055 combines an accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer on...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
Rotary Encoder
SKU: SF-COM-09117 | Brand: SparkFun
This is a 12-step rotary encoder with a nice ‘clicking’ feel. It’s breadboard friendly, and has a pretty handy select switch (by pushing in on the knob). The encoder is different from a potentiometer in that an enc...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
Mini Photocell
SKU: SF-SEN-09088 | Brand: SparkFun
This is a very small light sensor. A photocell changes (also called a photodetector, photo resistor, CdS or photoconductive cell) resistance depending on the amount of light it is exposed to. These little sensors make...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
Photo cell (CdS photoresistor)
SKU: AF-161 | Brand: Adafruit
CdS cells are little light sensors. As the squiggly face is exposed to more light, the resistance goes down. When its light, the resistance is about 5-10KΩ, when dark it goes up to 200KΩ. To use, connect one side o...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
Sensor Cable - Electrode Pads (3 connector)
SKU: SF-CAB-12970 | Brand: SparkFun
This is your simple three conductor sensor cable with electrode pad leads. These cables are 24" long and feature a 3.5mm audio jack connector on one end with snap style receptacles for biomedical sensor pads. Each cab...
Delivered by Fri 14 Aug
RPLIDAR A1M8 - 360 Degree Laser Scanner Development Kit
SKU: DF-DFR0315 | Brand: DFRobot
FEATURESAPPLICATIONSSPECIFICATIONSNote: It has been newest Model: A1M8 --2017/5/15 DOCUMENTS SLAMTEC Website Development Kit SDK & Datasheet Related Rplidar Review by Gavin (@MechatronicsGuy) ICP-SLAM based on Rob...
Delivered by Fri 14 Aug
Adafruit Triple-axis Magnetometer - MMC5603
SKU: AF-5579 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit MMC5603 is a triple-axis magnetometer (compass) breakout with a wide ±30 gauss (±3000 µT) measurement range and full 20-bit output resolution at up to 1000 Hz. It's sensitive enough to detect Earth's magn...
Delivered by Thu 27 Aug
Temperature Sensor - High Temperature, Waterproof (DS18B20)
SKU: SF-SEN-18367 | Brand: SparkFun
A sealed, waterproof DS18B20 digital temperature probe for precise measurements in wet or harsh environments. The sensor communicates over a 1-Wire interface, requiring just one data pin (plus ground) to connect to yo...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
Fermion: VL53L3CX ToF Distance Ranging Sensor (Breakout)
SKU: DF-SEN0378 | Brand: DFRobot
The VL53L3CX is the latest Time-of-Flight (ToF) product from STMicroelectronics and embeds ST’s third-generation FlightSense technology. With the improved detection accuracy, the sensor features a 25~3000mm sensing ra...
Delivered by Fri 14 Aug
ACS712 Current Sensor- 20A
SKU: EC-SEL71220A | Brand: Elecrow
A current sensing module based on the Allegro ACS712 Hall effect sensor, capable of accurately measuring both AC and DC current up to ±20 A. The module outputs a proportional analogue voltage that can be read directly...
Delivered by Wed 5 Aug
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