2022 Submissions - Make: Community

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.

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Arm mounted portable 3D printer

Joe Larson

It's a 3D printer that can print wirelessly and strapped to your arm

Community Votes: 3

3D Hangman Game

Lochlan Fitzgerald

My game is a new way to play hangman without drawing. This 3D version is tactile for both the letters and "man". You have to guess the letters of the word before the whole body is put together. It's a great way to learn spelling.

Community Votes: 44

Giganty’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

Opensource $300 Real Time PCR “qNinja” and $50 LAMP machine “qNinja Lite”

Shingo Hisakawa

Everyone can make and design their own gene testing.

Community Votes: 3

BLE 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

Skupr by Born Artifex

Ravi Uday Prabhune

While we love our pet dog, we unintentionally contribute significantly to the plastic pollution with 415B dog poop bags, that’s 1.23M tons of plastics. My simple patent-pending scooper uses biodegradable cartridges to help avoid pollution.

Community Votes: 11

Humpbacks 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

Music 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

Cable 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

The ASCAND – 3D Printable 3D Scanning @ Laser Precision for All of Us

Gerrit Kolb

To date 3D scanning is prohibitively expensive to get everyone involved. So we created a 3D Printable, Affordable Laser 3D Color Scanner. Combining 3D printed parts, your phone, a turn table, a laser, and a Community Cloud Service.

Community Votes: 4

Remote-Controlled Robotic Leaf Blower

Brian Wiggin

Remote controlled leaf blowing robot utilizing a custom roof hoisting mechanism

Community Votes: 2

SUGO 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

Cheerbot: 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

SUGO Ears

Koichi Shiono

The SUGO ear is a great extension of human communication. Communication with the ears is wonderful because it has no borders.

Community Votes: 30

Lightsabers 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

PICOmputer – Universal Pocket Computer & communicator

Peter Misenko

Raspberry Pi PICO based universal retrocomputer and communicator, specially designed for Circuitpython / Micropython programing

Community Votes: 7

Ghostbuster 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

WiFi controlled boat

Filip Zigo

WiFi controlled boat with 360° camera

Community Votes: 5

Alpha 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