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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Raspberry Pi Sense Hat
SKU: RP-SC0329_1 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
The Raspberry Pi Sense HAT is an add-on board that attaches to the Raspberry Pi via the 40-pin GPIO header, adding a suite of environmental and motion sensors, an 8×8 RGB LED matrix, and a mini joystick. It's the same...
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AS7331 UVA/UVB/UVC Sensor Breakout
SKU: AF-6476 | Brand: Adafruit
This compact board makes it easy to measure ultraviolet light across three separate bands, giving you independent UVA, UVB and UVC readings instead of a single combined value. That makes it a strong fit for human and ...
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TSSP77038 38kHz IR Demodulator Breakout
SKU: AF-5940 | Brand: Adafruit
This breakout uses Vishay's TSSP77038 infrared demodulator to give you the raw demodulated output from a 38kHz IR signal, without the extra filtering used in typical remote-control receivers. That makes it a handy cho...
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Micro Proximity Sensor - 20 cm VCNL4040 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-30161 | Brand: SparkFun
Built around the VCNL4040, this tiny Qwiic Micro breakout provides short-range presence detection for projects where space and weight are tight. It is designed for qualitative sensing: detecting whether an object is p...
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Qwiic Soil Moisture Sensor
SKU: SF-SEN-24409 | Brand: SparkFun
This compact breakout board measures moisture in soil and similar materials using two large exposed pads as conductivity probes. As the soil gets wetter, conductivity between the pads increases, resistance drops, and ...
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Gravity SFA40 Formaldehyde (HCHO) Sensor
SKU: DF-SEN0661 | Brand: DFRobot
This Gravity-series module is a high-precision electrochemical sensor for monitoring formaldehyde (HCHO) in indoor air. It is built around Sensirion’s SFA40 sensing chip and is designed to selectively detect HCHO whil...
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LIS3DH Micro Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-29529 | Brand: SparkFun
This ultra-small Qwiic-enabled breakout adds three-axis acceleration sensing to compact projects using the LIS3DH, a smart, low-power capacitive micro-machined accelerometer with 12-bit resolution. It can be used for ...
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DFRobot SEN0704 6x6 Flexible Tactile Pressure Sensor - UART
SKU: DF-SEN0704 | Brand: DFRobot
This flexible thin-film array gives robots, wearables and HCI projects a compact way to sense where pressure is being applied. It integrates 36 independent sensing points into a 15 x 15mm active area, enabling real-ti...
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DFRobot SEN0676 80GHz mmWave Liquid Level Sensor - 40m UART
SKU: DF-SEN0676 | Brand: DFRobot
This 80GHz millimetre-wave radar module is built for precise, non-contact liquid level detection. Using Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar, it measures from above the liquid surface, making it suitable f...
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SLAMTEC Aurora AI 3D Mapping & 6DOF Positioning Sensor
SKU: DF-DFR1220 | Brand: DFRobot
The SLAMTEC Aurora is an all-in-one perception sensor for autonomous robots, combining LiDAR, binocular vision, inertial sensing and onboard AI processing in a single mapping and localisation unit. It is designed to p...
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MyoWare 2 Muscle Sensor Wireless Kit
SKU: SF-KIT-27922 | Brand: SparkFun
Build and test wireless muscle-sensing projects with this Arduino-compatible electromyography (EMG) kit from the MyoWare 2 ecosystem. It centres on the MyoWare 2 Muscle Sensor, which measures muscle activity from the ...
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VCNL4200 Long Distance IR Proximity & Light Sensor Breakout
SKU: AF-6064 | Brand: Adafruit
Need approximate distance sensing over tens of centimetres to around a metre, plus ambient light measurement from the same board? This breakout carries Vishay’s VCNL4200, a two-in-one IR proximity and ambient light se...
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ScoutMakes DRV5032 Digital Hall Effect Sensor Breakout
SKU: AF-6051 | Brand: Adafruit
Add magnetic sensing to your project with this breakout built around the Texas Instruments DRV5032 digital Hall effect sensor. Its digital output changes when the magnetic flux density threshold is crossed, making it ...
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