--- product_id: 1311747 title: "Make: Sensors: A Hands-On Primer for Monitoring the Real World with Arduino and Raspberry Pi" price: "VT7767" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1311747-make-sensors-a-hands-on-primer-for-monitoring-the-real store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Make: Sensors: A Hands-On Primer for Monitoring the Real World with Arduino and Raspberry Pi **Price:** VT7767 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Make: Sensors: A Hands-On Primer for Monitoring the Real World with Arduino and Raspberry Pi - **How much does it cost?** VT7767 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1311747-make-sensors-a-hands-on-primer-for-monitoring-the-real) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Make: Sensors is the definitive introduction and guide to the sometimes-tricky world of using sensors to monitor the physical world. With dozens of projects and experiments for you to build, this book shows you how to build sensor projects with both Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Use Arduino when you need a low-power, low-complexity brain for your sensor, and choose Raspberry Pi when you need to perform additional processing using the Linux operating system running on that device. You'll learn about touch sensors, light sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetic sensors, as well as temperature, humidity, and gas sensors. Review: Great guide into electronics - Great book for learning electronics and fun book to follow along side with experiments Review: Sensors for Dummies - This primer bridges both worlds of Arduino and Raspberry Pi with excellent attention to details for the uninitiated. If you need proven solutions AND willing to fork some $$$ for the sensors you will achieve a sense of satisfaction in quickly reproducing the abundant examples in the book. The more I use the book to evaluate the exercises, the more I am impressed by the attention to detail by the authors. Of course, there will always be opportunities to explain things in more detail for diverse audiences but I have to confess that most of the discrepancies I am capturing below may be due to "operator error!" :) I will append editorial oversights below as I dutifully step through each chapter [be warned: this is not my day job :)] Figure 1-7 does not match Table 1-1 Example 3-5 assumes that the on-board LED (pin #13) is used in Figure 3-10 Example 3-4 invokes "botbook_gpio.py" which failed compilation in my IDLE 3 environment (I corrected the print statements) at line 25, column 20 for the "wa" dual attribute. Apparently one attribute is allowed in my configuration. Not knowing enough about the low level details, I changed the setting to a single attribute but ran into "timeout" problems with the pulseInHigh(echoPin) method. Perhaps an example of the "operator error" I alluded to earlier. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #335,597 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #44 in Single Board Computers (Books) #71 in Robotics (Books) #148 in Robotics & Automation (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 185 Reviews | ## Images ![Make: Sensors: A Hands-On Primer for Monitoring the Real World with Arduino and Raspberry Pi - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91NlPSh-iQL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great guide into electronics *by R***N on March 14, 2026* Great book for learning electronics and fun book to follow along side with experiments ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sensors for Dummies *by M***M on June 3, 2014* This primer bridges both worlds of Arduino and Raspberry Pi with excellent attention to details for the uninitiated. If you need proven solutions AND willing to fork some $$$ for the sensors you will achieve a sense of satisfaction in quickly reproducing the abundant examples in the book. The more I use the book to evaluate the exercises, the more I am impressed by the attention to detail by the authors. Of course, there will always be opportunities to explain things in more detail for diverse audiences but I have to confess that most of the discrepancies I am capturing below may be due to "operator error!" :) I will append editorial oversights below as I dutifully step through each chapter [be warned: this is not my day job :)] Figure 1-7 does not match Table 1-1 Example 3-5 assumes that the on-board LED (pin #13) is used in Figure 3-10 Example 3-4 invokes "botbook_gpio.py" which failed compilation in my IDLE 3 environment (I corrected the print statements) at line 25, column 20 for the "wa" dual attribute. Apparently one attribute is allowed in my configuration. Not knowing enough about the low level details, I changed the setting to a single attribute but ran into "timeout" problems with the pulseInHigh(echoPin) method. Perhaps an example of the "operator error" I alluded to earlier. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ wonderful wonderful wonderful and equals it's weight gold. *by M***I on March 21, 2016* the example of compass-Accelerometer worth 10 times the price of the book alone.. the book is full color on high quality paper, and full of high quality information with step by step implementation , wiring diagrams and a good explanations of the code lines...kinda fast explanations though, i wish they would have elaborated a bit more. few improvements are required to make it five stars: i would really have appreciated more illustrations explaining theory behind the code specially for the LSM303 experiment, I'm not really a fan of just implementing things that i don't understand. showing the output of programs would have been very helpful in many experiments, but yet none. i felt like the book is either made in a rush, or may be the authors did not want the book to be overwhelming for hobbyists so that they target more audience for the book, i do not know, but the appendix might have been a solution i guess. all in all the book is full of excellent information. I'll watch out for the authors if they publish any other books, I'll definitely buy it. ## Frequently Bought Together - Make: Sensors: A Hands-On Primer for Monitoring the Real World with Arduino and Raspberry Pi - Getting Started with Sensors: Measure the World with Electronics, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi - Getting Started With Arduino: The Open Source Electronics Prototyping Platform --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1311747-make-sensors-a-hands-on-primer-for-monitoring-the-real](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1311747-make-sensors-a-hands-on-primer-for-monitoring-the-real) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-06-06*