Sensors

Getting started guide for the Avago APDS-9960 color, proximity, and gesture sensor.

How to assemble, connect to, and use the LSM9DS0 -- an accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer all-in-one.

Hook a light-sensing photocell up to an Arduino to create an ambient light monitor.

Breakout of MS5803-14BA Pressure Sensor to measure the absolute pressure of the fluid around them to determine altitude, water depth, or any other tasks that require an accurate pressure reading. This includes air, water, and anything else that acts like a viscous fluid.

Learn how to create your very own heart rate monitor.

Measure relative humidity and temperature or your environment with the RHT03 (a.k.a DHT22) low cost sensor on a single wire digital interface connected to an Arduino!

What does a baby elephant weigh? How much impact force does a jump have? Answer these questions and more by building your very own IoT industrial scale using the SparkFun OpenScale.

We can use the parts and concepts in the SparkFun Invetor's Kit to make a primitive keyboard instrument.

Learn how we converted 72 lightbulbs into an interactive LED array for our conference room.

A basic hookup guide for getting started with the SparkFun Wake-on-Shake. The board gives you the ability to put your project into hibernation until bumped or shaken awake using the ADXL362 accelerometer. This means you can design projects meant to stay inert for long periods of time, possibly even several years, depending on the battery type used to power the project.

Get started with the ADXL345 Accelerometer.

Get up and running with the MPU-9250 9-axis MEMS sensor.

Dive into the world of the Internet of Things with the SparkFun Inventor's Kit for Photon.

The SparkFun ESP8266 Thing Dev Board is a powerful development platform that lets you connect your hardware projects to the Internet. In this guide, we show you how to combine some simple components to remotely log temperature data, send yourself texts and control lights from afar.

The APDS-9301 sensor is an I2C connected luminosity sensor which returns measurements in lux.

See the invisible world of infrared radiation using the FLIR Dev Kit and Raspberry Pi.

Review, teardown, and hacking tutorial for the MindWave Mobile, a $99 commercial grade EEG sensor.

The TFMini is a ToF (Time of Flight) LiDAR sensor capable of measuring the distance to an object as close as 30 cm and as far as 12 meters! The TFMini allows you to easily integrate LiDAR into applications traditionally reserved for smaller sensors such as the SHARP GP-series infrared rangefinders. With the added Qwiic feature, you can quickly connect to the sensor via I2C!

How much impact can the human body handle? This tutorial will teach you how to build your very own impact force monitor using a helmet, Raspberry Pi Zero, and accelerometer!

Bring the ability to detect light levels to any project with the SparkFun TEMT6000 Ambient Light Sensor Breakout.

The SparkFun MAX30105 Particle Sensor is a flexible and powerful sensor enabling sensing of distance, heart rate, particle detection, even the blinking of an eye. Get ready. Set. Shine!

Basic introduction and hook-up guide for the SparkFun Logomatic.

This scarf is embedded with a ribbon of LEDs that illuminate when it gets dark out, making yourself more visible to vehicle and other pedestrians.

Getting started with the Pyboard using MicroPython.