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.
She Builds Robots
Christina Ernst
Free website for teen girls to learn art-centric robotic projects.
Community Votes: 30
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
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
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
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
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
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
MoreArduino Based Helicopter Collective Control
Kaleb Clark
Helicopter Collective Control for flight simulation based on an Arduino Micro.
Community Votes: 13
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
MoreThe Good Air Canary
Peter Milne
An open source IoT Canary that responds to Air Quality data from Sensors, and will squawk at poor air, and eventually fall of its perch if air quality is terrible - prompting you to take action!
Community Votes: 8
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
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
MoreThe Hubbard Oscillation Bar Tap
Joshua Kinsey
A custom back bar tap. Entirely fabricated in steel, industrial resin, glass, and mica.
Community Votes: 1
MoreKey Holder With Automatic File Backup
Richard Eastmond
This keyholder has a mini wireless computer inside it that makes it easy for a person to plug in a USB drive, which is then backed up to after they hang up their keys.
Community Votes: 2
MoreHow Plants Share Nutrients
Sofia Egan
A simulation of how trees share nutrients through mycorrhizal networks.
Community Votes: 4
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
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
MoreAMADEUS
Hari Srikanth
A drone that can autonomously generate a map of an environment
Community Votes: 59
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
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
MoreIC4U3
Selin Alara Ornek
IC4U3 (I see for you - 3rd Version) is a robot guide dog for visually impaired people
Community Votes: 112
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
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