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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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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IR Modular Piano Kit
SKU: LB-00061 | Brand: Little Bird
OverviewDeveloped as a quick starter board for the less experienced we envision this board as the follow up to your first soldering session.In isolation this board will produce a middle C note by hovering over the boa...
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Logic Level Converter Module
SKU: LB-00038 | Brand: Little Bird
Geek Ammo's Australian Made Logic Level converter makes it possible to connect 3.3V (or even lower voltage sensors) to 5V micro controllers like the Raspberry Pi. With this module you can easily connect different...
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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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Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
SKU: PI-RPI-005 | Brand: Pimoroni
Make your Raspberry Pi into an Astro Pi with the Sense HAT - Pressure, humidity, temperature and orientation sensors combined with a beautiful 8x8 LED matrix!Attach the HAT to your Pi's GPIO pins and you can...
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Pycom Pytrack - GPS+motion shield for WiPy, SiPy, and LoPy
SKU: PI-PYC007 | Brand: Pimoroni
The Pycom Pytrack is a GPS and motion sensor shield compatible with Pycom multi-network modules including the WiPy, SiPy, and LoPy. It provides accurate GNSS positioning, a 3-axis accelerometer, USB serial access, LiP...
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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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Photo Interrupter - GP1A57HRJ00F
SKU: PI-COM1702 | Brand: Pimoroni
This sensor is composed of an infrared emitter on one upright and a shielded infrared detector on the other. By emitting a beam of infrared light from one upright to the other, the sensor can detect when an object pas...
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MyoWare Muscle Sensor
SKU: PI-AT-04-001 | Brand: Pimoroni
The MyoWare Muscle Sensor is an all-in-one electromyography (EMG) sensor that measures the filtered and rectified electrical activity of a muscle. It outputs 0 V to Vs (supply voltage) depending on the level of activi...
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Mini Photocell
SKU: PI-COM1703 | Brand: Pimoroni
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...
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Light Sensor Materials Kit
SKU: PI-CBI013 | Brand: Pimoroni
You’ve learned how to blink, fade and flash lights – now learn how to sense light levels! The Chibitronics Light Sensor sticker can turn the light level shining upon it into an analog voltage. Best of all, it comes...
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Heelight Core
SKU: PI-LNG002 | Brand: Pimoroni
Heelight Core is a smart sound sensor that can recognize up to 500+ digital voice commands. Heelight Core is tiny, only 20mm*17mm. By using the design of the stamp hole, you can easily integrate Heelight core in...
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Flotilla - Slider
SKU: PR-PIM037 | Brand: Little Bird
The Flotilla Slider module is a slide potentiometer with five bright white LEDs that illuminate as the slider is moved. It connects to a Flotilla Dock via a micro USB cable and is perfect for controlling synths, robot...
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Flotilla - Weather
SKU: PR-PIM031 | Brand: Little Bird
The Weather module reads temperature and pressure. It's ideal for setting up a mini weather station to monitor conditions in your house or garage. Features BMP280 sensor Detects temperature and pressure ...
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Flotilla - Light
SKU: PR-PIM033 | Brand: Little Bird
The Light module detects ambient light level. It's ideal for use in a weather station, keeping track of light levels in your greenhouse, or reminding you when you've left the lights on in your house. Feat...
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Flotilla - Colour
SKU: PR-PIM030 | Brand: Little Bird
The Colour module detects RGB colour, as well as ambient light level. It also has two bright white LEDs to illuminate objects whose colour is being detected. It uses the TCS3472 colour sensor. I...
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Explorer pHAT
SKU: PR-PIM137 | Brand: Little Bird
Explorer pHAT is the perfect prototyping side-kick for your Raspberry Pi. A compact version of the popular Explorer HAT Pro, it's designed to fit perfectly on a Raspberry Pi Zero. Packed with useful input and output ...
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Enviro pHAT
SKU: PR-PIM203 | Brand: Little Bird
Enviro pHAT packs 4 different sensors, letting you measure temperature, pressure, light level, colour, 3-axis motion, compass heading, and analog inputs. That's up to 10 different variables! It's ideal for monitoring ...
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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...
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