Position sensor AS5600 breakout
€4,95
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SKU: 333183
€4,95
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Designed and manufactured in Croatia.
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Ships from Croatia, fast EU delivery.
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Educational and OEM pricing on request.
2-year warranty
Standard EU 2-year warranty on all Soldered products.
Complimentary technical support
Our engineers answer your questions free of charge.
Open-source
Schematics, PCB files and firmware are available on GitHub.
Arduino-compatible
Plug it into any Arduino board and start coding in minutes.
Qwiic
Solderless Qwiic connector, chain it to any Qwiic board with a single cable.
Breadboard-compatible
2.54 mm pin spacing, drops straight onto any breadboard.
3.3 V & 5 V tolerant
Built-in level shifting, safe to use with both 3.3 V and 5 V logic levels.
LEGO-compatible
Mounting holes line up with LEGO spacing and peg size.
Description
The Soldered AS5600 Position Sensor Breakout measures rotation without ever touching the thing that's turning. Built around the AMS AS5600, a 12-bit contactless magnetic angle sensor, it reads the absolute position of a small diametrically magnetized magnet spinning above the chip and reports it as a full 0-360° angle with 4096 steps per turn - a true "contactless potentiometer".
That makes it a great fit for endless-rotation knobs, motor and joystick feedback, robot joints, pedals, or RC-style servos. You can read the angle over I2C - plug straight in with the two Qwiic connectors, or use the 4-pin header if your microcontroller runs a 5 V bus, since an on-board level shifter and 3.3 V regulator sort out the voltages for you either way - or take the sensor's analog/PWM signal directly from the 2-pin OUT header for the simplest possible hookup.
A DIR jumper flips the direction of rotation, solder jumpers enable or remove the I2C pull-ups on each side, and the AS5600's programmable start and stop positions let you map any part of a turn onto the full output range. It's all open-source hardware on a compact 22 × 22 mm board with two M3 mounting holes - just add a magnet and start measuring angles, today!
Technical Specifications
Sensor: AMS AS5600 (AS5600-ASOM, SOIC-8), 12-bit contactless magnetic rotary position sensor
Principle: Hall-based absolute angle of a diametrically magnetized on-axis magnet (contactless, no wear)
Resolution: 12-bit → 4096 positions per revolution (~0.088° step)
Angle range: 0-360° default; programmable start/stop (min span ~18° up to 360°)
Digital interface: I2C, address 0x36 (fixed)
Magnet handling: automatic magnet detection + AGC (present / too-weak / too-strong status)
Typical magnetic field: ~60 mT (diametric magnet, on-axis)
Analog/PWM output: 2-pin header (OUT, GND)
Pull-ups: 10 kΩ on both 3.3 V and 5 V I²C sides, removable via solder jumpers
Sensor supply: runs at 3.3 V on-board (AS5600 core rated 3.3 V / 5 V)
Board size: 22 × 22 mm
Mounting: 2 × 3.2 mm holes (M3)
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