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Sensors for Pi and Arduino Wishlist

In honor of the Summer of Sensors, we've decided to put together a wishlist of sensors and sensor shields/hats that you can incorporate into your Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects.

Shields and Hats for Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Sensors Kit For Raspberry Pi B+/2/3

This kit for Pi helps beginners get their feet wet with Pi development. Included are a PIR sensor, LDR/photoresistor, and temperature sensor, along with various LEDs, buzzer, and button to make testing easy.

Raspberry Pi Sensors Development Kit

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Raspberry Pi Sense HAT with Orientation, Pressure, Humidity and Temperature Sensors

The Pi Sense HAT gives you access to a variety of sensors, including gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, barometer, temperature, and relative humidity sensor. A built-in LED matrix display and 5 button joystick gives you a simple but effective user interface.

Pi Sense HAT

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EKG/EMG Shield for Arduino

Turn your Arduino into a health and medical application. This EKG/EMG Shield lets you experiment with biofeedback, monitoring pulse, and analyzing muscle activity.

EKG/EMG Shield

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Arduino Sensor Evaluation Board

Omron's Sensor Evaluation Board gives you access to 6 common types of sensing (temperature, humidity, light, barometric pressure, noise, and acceleration), and connects directly to an Arduino for quick development.

Sensor Evaluation Board

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Dust Sensor Development Board

For projects that must survive harsh condition, this humidity and temperature probe is IP67 rated, meaning total protection from dust and immersion in up to 1 meter of water. Perfect for devices that sit outdoors.

Dust Sensor

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3-Axis Digital Accelerometer Development Board

The 3-axis digital accelerometer development board connects directly to an Arduino R3, or to Freescale Freedom development boards. Download the Sensor Toolbox software, and get started!

Digital Accelerometer Shield

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Sensors

Ultrasonic Distance Sensor

For projects that move autonomously, distance sensors are required. This ultrasonic ranging sensor lets your robot sense objects up to 4m away.

Ultrasonic sensor

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Temperature Sensor

Temperature sensors help monitor not only climate and environment, but overheating machinery. This sensor works with both Pi and Arduino, and keeps a watchful eye on thermal conditions.

Temperature Sensor

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Tilt Sensor

Tilt sensors measure orientation or inclination. They're useful in many applications, including robotics, vehicles, and factory automation.

Tilt/Shift Sensor

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37-piece Sensor Set

If you want a variety of sensors that cover almost everything, DFRobot provides a 37-piece kit that contains a wide variety of sensors, including sound, heart rate, color, acceleration, vibration, gas, pressure, and more. Compatible with DFRobot's Gravity system. Each sensor is also available individually.

DFRobot 37 piece sensor kit

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AmbiMate Development Kits

AmbiMate

TE Connectivity's AmbiMate development kits connect to Raspberry Pi or Arduino, and with some downloadable code, let you start collecting data immediately. Several application specific kits are available.

Audio, Humidity, Light, Motion, Temperature
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CO2, Humidity, Light, Motion, Temperature
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  • Personally, I'd like to have a good soil humidity sensor, as the ones that I bought in other cheap stores don't work properly.

    I also found some projects that use UV light sensors, and I think they're pretty cool and interesting! I could use one like that along with the soil humidity sensor to warn me when the sun hits hard. Slight smile

  • I use the Arduino Uno platform because I can make connections very easily with other components, and it helped me for school projects, for projects with various sensors (temperature and humidity, flame sensor, gas sensor,) and LCD displays or 7 segments. PIR or IR sensors would also be useful for beginner projects, good and ultrasonic.
    I don't know if they can be considered sensors, but I've seen videos on the internet where some people have used some modules to measure voltage and current, and from here some very good projects could be made. These modules would be interesting to me. It would also be useful to be able to connect to the platform I have, at least via Bluetooth, or via Wi-Fi on a web page, but the LCD shield and buttons next to it is pretty good.
    For Arduino there is also the shield with the sim card, really good.
    Recently I bought a Raspberry Pi Pico because it is cheaper than the other boards, I didn't use it much, I managed to light a few LEDs so far. Interestingly, Pico has ADC, although it is cheaper, but platforms like Pi 4 that cost much more do not have ADC, so I don't know how to use sensors. I wanted to say that the most popular are HATs with a video camera, the housing with a cooling fan is not necessarily a HAT, but it is useful.
    So I think I made a good choice with Pico, for this board format an expansion board would be useful. I will start connecting Pico to the modules I already have. I don't know if there is a more special HAT created for Pico, it would need one with wireless connectivity.

  • I'd consider a Pi Camera module as a sensor.  It can be used for face detection, object detection, object avoidance. 

    GPS is another cool sensor so my robot can tell me where it is when it wanders off  :-)