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.
My little white “uchino Shiro”
mitsuru kitamura
This Tyrannosaurus costume, made of plastic cardboard with a cable tie, walks with its tail shaking.
Community Votes: 3
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
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
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
MoreDIY Solar Bottle Lamp
Debasish Dutta
Solar Bottle Lamp is a solar-powered light that is constructed from waste plastic bottles.
Community Votes: 24
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
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
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
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
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
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
MoreThe merry Makers (Les joyeux Patenteux)
Jean Sebastien Busque
The Merry Makers is a TV show where JS and Fred, two likeable yet slightly irreverent tinkerers, work on awesome projects and show young people how to make tons of practical stuff while cultivating their curiosity and know-how!
Community Votes: 2
MoreDragon Central
Mark Enright
Dragon Central - an interactive educational display, for events. Stardust and Steel are two 'baby' dragons, each over 2.4m long, pulling the Evil witch Fortuna’s carriage. Kids can learn about animatronics and how to make monsters move!
Community Votes: 8
MoreDigital Cartridge for Super 8 Cameras
Clemens Mayer
A digital sensor drop in replacement for Super 8 film cartridges.
Community Votes: 12
MoreCODED BREATH. A NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH Can we Develop an A.I. Powered Wireless Electronic-Nose that utilizes Machine Learning to identify the Volatile Organic Compounds of Fungal Pneumonia in our Breath?
Caleb Kodama
This project aims to determine if the volatile organic compounds of our breath can be used to diagnose fungal pneumonia, by developing an Electronic-Nose utilizing A.I. technology, while simultaneously transmitting patient data wirelessly
Community Votes: 4
MoreiGoBot – a GO game playing robot
Daniel Springwald
iGoBot is a robot that independently plays the Asian board game GO. To do this, it recognizes the human opponent's moves via camera and sets its own moves with a robot arm..
Community Votes: 3
MorePink-to-Matic: a circular, zero waste printing system
Isabel Allaert
We’re punkers, DIY’s, makers and we make stuff, hands-on and with zero waste: meet the Pink-to-Matic, a zero waste system to stamp and print your heart out!
Community Votes: 1
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
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
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
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