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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SRF08 Ultrasonic Sensor
SKU: DF-SEN0007 | Brand: DFRobot
The SRF08 is an evolutionary step up from the SRF04. It requires less power to operate, has a longer range (up to 6m) and it performs its own internal timing of the return echo. The SRF08 is also fitted with an LDR...
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URM07-UART Low-Power Consumption Ultrasonic Sensor (20~750cm)
SKU: DF-SEN0153 | Brand: DFRobot
The URM07 is an ultra-low-power UART ultrasonic distance sensor with an effective range of 20–750 cm. Operating on 3.0–5.5 V, it is directly compatible with 3.3 V and 5 V microcontrollers including Arduino and Raspber...
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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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MyoWare 2 Muscle Sensor Development Kit
SKU: SF-KIT-27920 | Brand: SparkFun
This all-in-one electromyography (EMG) kit gives you the MyoWare 2 boards needed to experiment with different muscle-sensing setups. Depending on how you configure it, you can visualise muscle activity with the MyoWar...
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APDS9999 Proximity, Lux & Colour Sensor
SKU: AF-6461 | Brand: Adafruit
This compact breakout combines RGB colour sensing, true lux light measurement and infrared proximity detection in one I2C device. With library code running on your microcontroller, it can read red, green, blue and cle...
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PAV3015 Air Velocity Sensor (0–15 m/s, I2C)
SKU: DF-SEN0639 | Brand: DFRobot
This compact digital anemometer measures air velocity for embedded electronics and intelligent control systems. It is built around the Posifa PAV3015D thermal sensing element, using temperature differences across a th...
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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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MyoWare 2 Muscle Sensor Basic Kit
SKU: SF-KIT-27921 | Brand: SparkFun
This all-in-one MyoWare 2 electromyography (EMG) kit gives you the essentials for measuring and visualising muscle activity. It is Arduino-compatible, but the included setup is designed to follow the standalone exampl...
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OV5640 5MP Camera Breakout with 160° Wide Angle Lens
SKU: AF-5841 | Brand: Adafruit
This breakout makes it easier to add a camera module to capable hobby microcontrollers without needing a full computer or FPGA. It uses an OV5640 camera with a 5 Megapixel sensor element and a very-wide 160-degree fis...
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Adafruit SCD-43 True CO2, Temperature & Humidity Sensor
SKU: AF-6512 | Brand: Adafruit
This compact breakout measures true ambient CO2 concentration using photoacoustic sensor technology, rather than estimating CO2 from VOC gas concentration. It reports CO2 in parts per million and also includes integra...
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Flex Sensor - 2.2 inch
SKU: LB-HS7762 | Brand: Little Bird
This flex sensor is a simple resistive bend sensor for turning physical movement into an analogue signal. Bend the strip and its resistance increases, giving you an easy way to sense flex without gears, linkages or ot...
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