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.
Open Smartwatch
Paul Smith
The Open-Smartwatch consists of hardware modules, 3D printable cases and a custom operating system to build smartwatches with the goal that they can be assembled, repaired and modified by everyone.
Community Votes: 12
MorePaper Airplane Windtunnel
Elizabeth Sallay
A small fan designed to create laminar flow to test the aerodynamics of your paper airplane.
Community Votes: 4
MoreEducational Robot Arm
Isaac Venezia
A low-cost robot arm designed to give more students access to robotics.
Community Votes: 6
MoreGhostbuster PKE Meter Real – MoonMakers
Diego Francisco Luna Lopez
We brought to life the PKE Meter, one of the Ghostbusters tools invented by Dr. Egon Spengler, using 3D printing, Raspberry pi, and the Wio Terminal. We created artificial intelligence to detect ghosts. Find out how we created it!
Community Votes: 20
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
MoreCable Drive
Richard Emmett
An aerial cable and electric vehicle is the most efficient way to move an object from point A to B. It requires minimum energy to set up and operate and is inherently safe and reliable. This Maker Project is a working “proof of concept”
Community Votes: 6
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
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
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
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
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
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
MorePolystruder
Ali Torun
Polystruder is an upcoming open source 3d printer filament production line that is currently under heavy development.
Community Votes: 4
MoreNew multifunctional 3D printer concept
Rui Pires
New machine concept which allows to 3D print at 90° and 45°, CNC, laser, plotter and other tools.
Community Votes: 393
MoreMAKE…a Difference
george ettenheim
This project is an effort to prototype a mobile vehicle based system to aide in rural disaster relief efforts.
Community Votes: 3
MoreTemperature and CO2 sensing robot
Carlotta Berry
This project describes adding temperature and CO2 sensors to a mobile robot to sense and alarm when values in the environment exceed a given threshold.
Community Votes: 4
MoreDirect 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
MorePolite & Pleasant Greenway Passing Etiquette – a talking signaling bicycle helmet for safer cycling
Gary Yohe
This talking and signaling bike helmet assists greenway safety & courteous passing communication while bicycling.
Community Votes: 1
MoreMake Everything Possible!
Karen Kaun
"Make Everything Possible!" engages young people in science, technology, engineering, art and math through embracing parents as partners in learning and making.
Community Votes: 5
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
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
MoreRoamer 2, the Almost Living Robot Pet
Michael Rigsby
Roamer 2, powered by capacitors, wanders about and recharges herself.
Community Votes: 37
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