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.
ToolBus
Jeremy Trilling
The ToolBus is a mobile solar-powered innovation studio, built to empower boundless creative freedom.
Community Votes: 8
MoreAll-ages Geodesic Dome Design
Andrew Cegielski
An affordable and flexible all-ages way to build geodesic domes.
Community Votes: 83
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
MoreHow Plants Share Nutrients
Sofia Egan
A simulation of how trees share nutrients through mycorrhizal networks.
Community Votes: 4
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
MoreCraftin’ the The TeleCrafsMan
Ray Rumore
The TeleCrafsMan is a Telepresence Robot we created so the CrafsMan can attend events.
Community Votes: 246
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
MoreBLE AI-driven Smartwatch Detecting Potential Sun Damage
Kutluhan Aktar
Log UV radiation and weather data on an SD card to train an Edge Impulse model. Then, run the model on XIAO BLE to get informed of potential sun damage over BLE via an Android application.
Community Votes: 23
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
MoreTechnical release project for Profree-4 hardware synthesizer
Asuka Ouchi
The project is to develop the Profree-4, a clone synthesizer of the famous synthesizer Prophet-5, and to make all the technical information available to the public free of charge.
Community Votes: 9
MoreFour Muses
Alana Balagot
Four experimental robotic instruments are controlled wirelessly with a MIDI keyboard and LED matrix display in four different modes.
Community Votes: 3
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
MoreCheerbot: IRL toy robots for the Web3 smart home
Kyle Smith
Combines NFT with designer toy and raspberry pi audience remote control for fun onset interactive art
Community Votes: 6
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
MoreRGB LED Scrolling Facemask
Lorraine Underwood
A facemask that scrolls what you're saying, transcribed from speech-to-text
Community Votes: 10
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
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
MoreTapeBlocks: Creative Circuit Making for All
Kirsten Ellis
TapeBlocks are the accessible, affordable, versatile and creative circuit making activity that is accessible for everyone including people living with a disability. TapeBlocks combine technology with creativity for play and exploration
Community Votes: 5
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
Moreomicro | Hand-operated spherical robot
Takuya Ichise
OMICRO is a robotic ball. It can be controlled from a smartphone or tablet, and when combined with the Apple Watch, multiple balls can be controlled simultaneously using only hand movements.
Community Votes: 10
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
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