The first annual Amazing Maker Award Projects are here! This juried competition highlights the creative and technical contributions of makers, as well as their social impact on a global scale. Join us celebrating all types of makerhood while also rewarding some truly spectacular work. Community voting is now open until July 15, 2022! To vote for your favorite projects, click ‘More’ on that project and vote, vote, vote. You can vote once a day per project.
Direct Granules Extruder
Norbert Heinz
A drop in replacement extruder for common 3D printers that can process recycled plastics or brittle materials such as sugar
Community Votes: 3
MoreSkupr by Born Artifex
Ravi Uday Prabhune
While we love our pet dog, we unintentionally contribute significantly to the plastic pollution with 415B dog poop bags, that’s 1.23M tons of plastics. My simple patent-pending scooper uses biodegradable cartridges to help avoid pollution.
Community Votes: 11
MoreNikola Tesla interactive animatronic bust
Daniel Springwald
An interactive animatronic bust of the great inventor Nikola Tesla, with which you can talk about his life.
Community Votes: 4
MoreRoad Rower, the Rowing Recumbent Bicycle
Donald Moore
The Road Rower is a recumbent bicycle powered by a whole-body rowing motion for commuting, exercise, recreation and sport.
Community Votes: 5
MoreAnything’s Possible Climber Scale Model
Michael Nelson
We were challenged by the new El Paso Children's Museum and Science Center to create a scale model of a feature attraction of the museum, a-one-of-a-kind, four story climbing structure that will challenge kids of all ages.
Community Votes: 10
MoreRemote-Controlled Robotic Leaf Blower
Brian Wiggin
Remote controlled leaf blowing robot utilizing a custom roof hoisting mechanism
Community Votes: 2
MoreHorse Bike
JAMES OWEN
Creat a Bike with eccentric wheels and a horse body with moveable legs and a sound clopping device.
Community Votes: 19
MoreSUGO Finger (Awesome Finger)
ITARU KAWAKAMI
SUGO Finger doubles the number of human fingers in serial dimension, to extend the ability, everyday life, and mind of human race.
Community Votes: 32
MorePneuAct: Digital Fabrication of Pneumatic Actuators with Integrated Sensing by Machine Knitting
Yiyue Luo
PneuAct is a scalable pipeline to computationally design and digitally fabricate knit pneumatic actuators with integrated sensing; our system allows users to virtually design and preview actuators to be machine knitted quickly at low costs.
Community Votes: 10
MoreAll-ages Geodesic Dome Design
Andrew Cegielski
An affordable and flexible all-ages way to build geodesic domes.
Community Votes: 83
MoreMr. Bob – Robot Butler
Asad Grabovica
Around 15% of the world’s population has spme form of disability. We want to help those people so we crated a Robot butler which will be bringing things such as water and snacks to people wherever they are located in the house.
Community Votes: 2
MoreAMADEUS
Hari Srikanth
A drone that can autonomously generate a map of an environment
Community Votes: 59
MoreThe Wireless Human-Human Interface
Timothy Marzullo
Use the electrical power of your arm muscles to wirelessly control your friend's nervous system over the internet!
Community Votes: 98
MorePICOmputer – Universal Pocket Computer & communicator
Peter Misenko
Raspberry Pi PICO based universal retrocomputer and communicator, specially designed for Circuitpython / Micropython programing
Community Votes: 7
MoreShe Builds Robots
Christina Ernst
Free website for teen girls to learn art-centric robotic projects.
Community Votes: 30
MoreR2Home
Yohan Hadji
R2Home is about making radiosondes reusable using autonomous paraglider robots.
Community Votes: 3
MoreDesert Eye: Military Surveillance Robot
Aviv Butvinik
Desert Eye is a mobile, military surveillance robot that can traverse the desert environment and wirelessly stream video regarding enemy locations to a mobile device via its articulating arm mounted night-vision zoom camera.
Community Votes: 34
More3D Hangman Game
Lochlan Fitzgerald
My game is a new way to play hangman without drawing. This 3D version is tactile for both the letters and "man". You have to guess the letters of the word before the whole body is put together. It's a great way to learn spelling.
Community Votes: 44
MoreEducational Robot Arm
Isaac Venezia
A low-cost robot arm designed to give more students access to robotics.
Community Votes: 6
MoreHumpbacks of Notre Dame
Robert van de Walle
Rapid climate change causes all the world's ice to melt by 2069, flooding coastlines and disrupting migration routes, humpback whales now visit a partially submerged Notre Dame Cathedral and our team arrives to film the documentary.
Community Votes: 10
MoreBe the Hamster
Joe Donoughe
I have created an 8' tall hamster wheel, that when a kid gets in it and start running, it grinds up ice to make a snow cone.
Community Votes: 6
MoreSmart City of Vukovar – Our view of smart living
Davor Sijanovic
This magnificent model offers a solution in a greater electricity saving, better use of a solar Sun power panels, and reducing the traffic jams on the road as well as around the parking lots.
Community Votes: 2
MoreThe ASCAND – 3D Printable 3D Scanning @ Laser Precision for All of Us
Gerrit Kolb
To date 3D scanning is prohibitively expensive to get everyone involved. So we created a 3D Printable, Affordable Laser 3D Color Scanner. Combining 3D printed parts, your phone, a turn table, a laser, and a Community Cloud Service.
Community Votes: 4
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