Sensors without shield

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Software Interfacing
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Hi!
As an Arduino noob, i dont know a lot about the sensors, but still they seem to be very interesting stuff. So maybe you could just name some sensors that you know. They should be as simple as possible. Just plug in (with some resistors) and ready to go.

Here are mine that i know so far:

  1. Light Dependent Resistor (LDR)
  2. IR receiver
  3. Piezo plate, for knock sensor
  4. temperature sensor
  5. Microphone
  6. PIR motion sensor
  7. tilt sensor
  8. humidity sensor
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photodetector (pretty much an LDR but faster and on a specific wavelength)
barometric pressure sensor
gyroscope
electronic compass
accellerometer

umm, getting stuck there... Some of them need a serial port or i2c etc but you can get simple and complicated versions of most of them

Mowcius

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Pressure sensor
Weight sensor
Proximity sensor
Current sensor
Magnetic sensor (hall effect)
Touch sensor
IR remote control sensor (has amplifier and demodulator over conventional IR sensor)
PH sensor
Conductivity sensor.
Colour sensor

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wow, colour sensor seems very interesting. Thinking about these sensors makes me imagine all kinds of stuff i could do...