Sensors and Actuators
Our world is full of sensors, from motion detectors found in security cameras to tiny accelerometers in our smartphones.
Sensors are transducers which undergo transduction, the process of converting sensed energy whether they be movement, sound, light, pressure, heat, etc, into electrical signals. Another transducer is an actuator; However, rather than reacting to the environment, an actuator makes something happen i.e. an LED transforms electrical current into light.
They are also easy to connect up to the Raspberry Pi, thanks to its GPIO pins.
We've got all kinds of sensors and actuators available for your maker projects!
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$16.26BH1745 Luminance and Colour Sensor Breakout
A really sophisticated and accurate colour and luminance sensor breakout that's Raspberry Pi compatible. As well as detecting RGB colour and light ...
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$25.05VL53L1X Time of Flight (ToF) Sensor Breakout
An all-singing, all-dancing time of flight distance sensor that uses PEW PEW LASERS (low-powered ones), our VL53L1X breakout is easy to use with Ra...
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$32.52BME680 Breakout - Air Quality, Temperature, Pressure, Humidity Sensor
The state-of-the-art BME680 breakout lets you measure temperature, pressure, humidity, and indoor air quality, and is Raspberry Pi compatible! Use ...
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$34.28Explorer HAT Pro
Explorer HAT Pro adds a lot of useful tools to your Raspberry Pi. It has digital inputs and outputs, capacitive touch pads, croc. clip compatible p...
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$72.92Raspberry Pi Sense Hat
The Raspberry Pi Sense HAT is attached on top of the Raspberry Pi via the 40 GPIO pins. The Sense HAT has several integrated circuit based sensors ...
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$31.64Enviro pHAT
Enviro pHAT packs 4 different sensors, letting you measure temperature, pressure, light level, colour, 3-axis motion, compass heading, and analog i...
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$59.33Unicorn HAT HD
We've stepped up our LED game! Unicorn HAT HD crams 256 RGB LEDs, in a 16x16 matrix, onto a single HAT. High-definition rainbow goodness! You can s...
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$30.75Skywriter HAT
Use this 3D interface to sense things floating in the air over it. Detect swipes and the motion of your hand with X, Y and Z positions. Skywriter H...
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$9.96DHT22 module with cable
The DHT22 (also known in Australia by RHT03) is a low cost humidity and temperature sensor with a single wire digital interface. The sensor comes ...
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$4.00PIR Motion Sensor
This PIR sensor is suitable for use with Arduino and Raspberry PI. The 3.3v logic level is very handy as it allows you to use this sensor with 3.3...
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$13.63Waterproof DS18B20 Sensor Kit
INTRODUCTION If you are familiar with our product, you will find there is waterproof temperature sensor named DS18B20. This waterproof temperature...
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$3.45Soft Tactile Button (8mm) x 10
Put your project in stealth mode with these silent Soft Tactile Switch Buttons. Tactile switches are standard input "buttons" on electronic projec...
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$1.22Rotary Potentiometer - 10k Ohm, Linear
An adjustable potentiometer can open up many interesting user interfaces. Turn the pot and the resistance changes. Connect VCC to an outer pin, GN...
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$3.00Ultrasonic Distance Sensor HC-SR04
If you need to add distance awareness to your robot or low altitude sensor for your drone, this is one of the easiest and most commonly used ways....
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