Sparkfun Essential Sensor Kit

hi there spark fans Rob Reynolds here question why are we sending Rovers to Mars because it's cool well ok partly because it's cool but mostly to gather information and what do we use to gather information sensors are the more sensors the more information and information is power so how much power do you want well how many sensors do you want you can get over a dozen with the new Sparkfun sensor kit this kit boasts 15 sensors and actually it's a little bit more than that since some boards like the environmental combo board hosts more than one sensor let's take a look and I'll give you the rundown of what's in this kit there's a large piezo vibration sensor with mass a reed switch a quarter-inch magnet square great for triggering the reed switch a half inch force sensitive resistor a PIR motion sensor a mini photocell qrd 1114 optical detector and photo resistor the sparklin environmenta