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.
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
MoreSUGO 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
MorePolystruder
Ali Torun
Polystruder is an upcoming open source 3d printer filament production line that is currently under heavy development.
Community Votes: 4
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
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
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
MoreZainiac 19
Zain Hamdia
A humanoid robot utilizing mindstorm made of various materials such as wood, metal, and 3D printed parts.
Community Votes: 21
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
MoreRoad Rower, the Rowing Recumbent Bicycle
Donald Moore
The Road Rower is a recumbent bicycle powered by a whole-body rowing motion for commuting, exercise, recreation and sport.
Community Votes: 5
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
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
MoreArm mounted portable 3D printer
Joe Larson
It's a 3D printer that can print wirelessly and strapped to your arm
Community Votes: 3
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
More3D 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
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
MoreSOLAR WIND ENERGY TREE
Pavitar Singh
Actually, I was facing a problem with my solar panel which I use to charge my power banks for charging mobiles.
Community Votes: 2
MoreSand Table
Ron Marianetti
This table draws designs in the sand by moving a steel ball through the sand via a magnet mounted on a software controlled platform underneath.
Community Votes: 14
MoreServo Wordclock v2
Moritz von Sivers
In this variation of the popular word clock, letters are projected from the back onto a screen, each letter is connected to a linear actuator that can be moved back and forth by a servo so that the projection changes size and focus.
Community Votes: 3
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
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
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
MoreRGB LED Scrolling Facemask
Lorraine Underwood
A facemask that scrolls what you're saying, transcribed from speech-to-text
Community Votes: 10
MoreSUGO 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
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