
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.
Desert 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
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
MoreOptical Theremin Music Box
David Simpson Simpson
Like a traditional wind-up music box, the Optical Theremin Music Box can automatically play a pre-determined melody for the pleasure of the user. However, the melodies played by this Music Box are generated opto-electronically.
Community Votes: 14
MoreDigital Cartridge for Super 8 Cameras
Clemens Mayer
A digital sensor drop in replacement for Super 8 film cartridges.
Community Votes: 12
MoreSand Table
Ron Marianetti
This table draws designs in the sand by moving a steel ball through the sand via a magnet mounted on a software controlled platform underneath.
Community Votes: 14
MoreRC Rivian R1T
Zeeland Bowers
This is a 100% 3d printed RC Rivian R1T that i designed and built.
Community Votes: 2
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
MoreBrightBikes BoomBike
Andrew Rudolph
When the pandemic hit and we couldn't get together indoors for big events, we brought the party outside with our giant mobile boombox bike!
Community Votes: 5
MoreZainiac 19
Zain Hamdia
A humanoid robot utilizing mindstorm made of various materials such as wood, metal, and 3D printed parts.
Community Votes: 21
MoreRGB LED Scrolling Facemask
Lorraine Underwood
A facemask that scrolls what you're saying, transcribed from speech-to-text
Community Votes: 10
MoreAuto Chasing Turtle
Noritsuna Imamura
By autonomous control, this robot recognizes a human's face and chases to the recognized human.
Community Votes: 5
More108 ambulances
peter cole
This project is a sculpture that hangs in midair, and features a steel mobius strip long enough to support 108 toy ambulances sourced from all over the world that drive forward in perpetuity.
Community Votes: 2
MoreThe Values Diagnostics Project
Sohum Uttamchandani
Matching caregivers and caretakers based on their values. Ensuring that care receivers get a desirable experience from caregivers, as well as caregivers get a stable and satisfying job.
Community Votes: 2
MoreMusic Derby
Tetsuji Katsuda
Music Derby is a game in which sound of music runs seven robots. The player predicts which robot will go the farthest when a tune is over. Music Derby can visualize the frequency of occurrence of notes on the scale in a song.
Community Votes: 3
MoreAutomatic Table Saw Fence, Router Lift and Joinery Maker
Richard Want
This is a system that calculates and automates a few different woodworking processes on-the-fly with very high precision.
Community Votes: 143
MoreBuild the world’s lightest (19 Lbs.) foldable coroplast tandem canoe
HONG WONG
DIY a super light weight (19 lbs.) foldable 10 ft. long coroplast canoe for two
Community Votes: 4
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
MoreLightsabers as hope: Making the brightest, sustainable-conscious lightsaber with commodity tools/materials
Crafty Sorceress
This lightsaber build is super accessible, sustainable conscious, and super bright to help photographers!
Community Votes: 19
MoreToolBus
Jeremy Trilling
The ToolBus is a mobile solar-powered innovation studio, built to empower boundless creative freedom.
Community Votes: 8
MoreHalloween Candy Mortar
Paul McCabe
Candy in a 35mm film container is launched towards a trick-or-treater when they step on a foot pedal 50 feet away from the launcher.
Community Votes: 2
MoreGoats Vs Llamas – a Design and Make Your Own 3D Board Game made over Zoom
Jude Pullen
An Award-Winning 3D DIY Board Game: download PDFs, print on paper, stick on waste cardboard, cut out, build - and customize. Epic fun and creative opportunities for makers/designers of all ages, and great reuse of your cardboard packaging!
Community Votes: 8
MoreRoamer 2, the Almost Living Robot Pet
Michael Rigsby
Roamer 2, powered by capacitors, wanders about and recharges herself.
Community Votes: 37
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
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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