
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.
Technical 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
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
MoreAlpha CubeSat – Reaching for the Stars
Joshua Umansky-Castro
Alpha is a 1U CubeSat designed to deploy a spin stabilized free flying light sail fitted with ChipSats (satellite-on-a-chip technology). The project demonstrates light sail technologies that are suitable for interstellar propulsion.
Community Votes: 416
MoreArduino Based Helicopter Collective Control
Kaleb Clark
Helicopter Collective Control for flight simulation based on an Arduino Micro.
Community Votes: 13
MorePaper Airplane Windtunnel
Elizabeth Sallay
A small fan designed to create laminar flow to test the aerodynamics of your paper airplane.
Community Votes: 4
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
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
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
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
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
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
More8bit
Hirotaka Niisato
8 bit is an application work uses the operating principle of a superconducting quantum computer gate control microwaves.
Community Votes: 3
MoreZainiac 19
Zain Hamdia
A humanoid robot utilizing mindstorm made of various materials such as wood, metal, and 3D printed parts.
Community Votes: 21
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
MoreNoise~Rompler // Cicada
Ereh Saw
Cicadas is a noise~rompler, and rompler is an electronic musical instrument that plays pre-fabricated sounds based on audio samples .. Each Cicada has two ways to change sound and made a noise: by a potentiometer and by photo~resistor ..
Community Votes: 2
MoreAll-ages Geodesic Dome Design
Andrew Cegielski
An affordable and flexible all-ages way to build geodesic domes.
Community Votes: 83
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
MoreThe Device from Another Planet
Bill Ball
A 1950s radio signal generator converted to a classic sci-fi movie inspired plaything.
Community Votes: 3
MoreGoats Vs Llamas – a Design and Make Your Own 3D Board Game made over Zoom
Jude Pullen
An Award-Winning 3D DIY Board Game: download PDFs, print on paper, stick on waste cardboard, cut out, build - and customize. Epic fun and creative opportunities for makers/designers of all ages, and great reuse of your cardboard packaging!
Community Votes: 8
MoreCraftin’ the The TeleCrafsMan
Ray Rumore
The TeleCrafsMan is a Telepresence Robot we created so the CrafsMan can attend events.
Community Votes: 246
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
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
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