Highlights We present a sensitive miniature pressure sensor based on the change in the physisorbed gases with the pressure of the surrounding air. The sensor consists of a suspended individual multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) clamped on Au electrodes by electron beam-induced deposition (EBID) of Pt. The variation in the surrounding pressure is shown to be tracked by monitoring the change in the resistivity, hence resistance, of the MWCNT bridge structure due to the change in percentage of oxygen and humidity in the surrounding medium with pressure.