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.
Paper Airplane Windtunnel
Elizabeth Sallay
A small fan designed to create laminar flow to test the aerodynamics of your paper airplane.
Community Votes: 4
MoreSUGO Ears
Koichi Shiono
The SUGO ear is a great extension of human communication. Communication with the ears is wonderful because it has no borders.
Community Votes: 30
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
MoreAir Quality Pop-up Pavilion: Rethinking Shared Spaces
Avye Couloute
The Air Quality Pavilion uses an internal sensor to monitor & then trigger various reactions to the CO2 levels, including opening & closing motorised shutter walls, an automatic sliding skylight, a fan & colour-coded warning lights.
Community Votes: 15
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
MoreCraftin’ the The TeleCrafsMan
Ray Rumore
The TeleCrafsMan is a Telepresence Robot we created so the CrafsMan can attend events.
Community Votes: 246
MoreRebuilding a Derelict NCC-1701A Enterprise into a Sustainable Desk Top PC
Andrew Filo
Evoking Mr. Scott to Transforming a $1.00 eBay kit into a mechanically accessible and long-term upgradable Desk Top PC for 3D design, communications and FUN!
Community Votes: 3
MoreDIY Solar Bottle Lamp
Debasish Dutta
Solar Bottle Lamp is a solar-powered light that is constructed from waste plastic bottles.
Community Votes: 24
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
MoreShe Builds Robots
Christina Ernst
Free website for teen girls to learn art-centric robotic projects.
Community Votes: 30
MoreBluff SchuetzenVerein Laser Shooting Range
Gregory Walker
This project is a reimaging of an historic German-Texas Shooting Contest (SchuetzenFest). We designed and built replica target rifles that shoot laser pulses. We also built photodetector-based targets of authentic appearance.
Community Votes: 9
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
MoreGiganty’s Bouncing Infinity Gadget
Sarah Gonsalves
This project shown is a 20' tall hand cranked machine that tosses 5000 superballs into a bounce chamber where the careem around and bounce off musical cymbals to make analog music! The Render is the re-design for 2022!
Community Votes: 27
MoreRGB LED Scrolling Facemask
Lorraine Underwood
A facemask that scrolls what you're saying, transcribed from speech-to-text
Community Votes: 10
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
MoreIC4U3
Selin Alara Ornek
IC4U3 (I see for you - 3rd Version) is a robot guide dog for visually impaired people
Community Votes: 112
More❤️ ❤️ An Artistic Exploration of Contemporary Online Courtship
Kenzie Housego
❤️ ❤️ explores contemporary courtship language and symbols. Combining embroidery, craft, and technology such as LEDs, motion sensors, and chatbots, viewers are invited to engage in a dialog with the artwork literally and conceptually.
Community Votes: 2
MoreThe Hubbard Oscillation Bar Tap
Joshua Kinsey
A custom back bar tap. Entirely fabricated in steel, industrial resin, glass, and mica.
Community Votes: 1
MoreAll-ages Geodesic Dome Design
Andrew Cegielski
An affordable and flexible all-ages way to build geodesic domes.
Community Votes: 83
MoreRemote-Controlled Robotic Leaf Blower
Brian Wiggin
Remote controlled leaf blowing robot utilizing a custom roof hoisting mechanism
Community Votes: 2
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 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
MoreEducational Robot Arm
Isaac Venezia
A low-cost robot arm designed to give more students access to robotics.
Community Votes: 6
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