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.
Bluff SchuetzenVerein Laser Shooting Range
Gregory Walker
This project is a reimaging of an historic German-Texas Shooting Contest (SchuetzenFest). We designed and built replica target rifles that shoot laser pulses. We also built photodetector-based targets of authentic appearance.
Community Votes: 9
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
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
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
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
MoreRemote-Controlled Robotic Leaf Blower
Brian Wiggin
Remote controlled leaf blowing robot utilizing a custom roof hoisting mechanism
Community Votes: 2
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
MoreAutonomous UV Robot with SLAM
Robin Kanattu Thomas
The affordable autonomous robot provides localization and mapping facilities and safely navigate the robot through the environment.
Community Votes: 2
MoreThe Hubbard Oscillation Bar Tap
Joshua Kinsey
A custom back bar tap. Entirely fabricated in steel, industrial resin, glass, and mica.
Community Votes: 1
MoreArm mounted portable 3D printer
Joe Larson
It's a 3D printer that can print wirelessly and strapped to your arm
Community Votes: 3
MoreEducational Robot Arm
Isaac Venezia
A low-cost robot arm designed to give more students access to robotics.
Community Votes: 6
MoreMake Everything Possible!
Karen Kaun
"Make Everything Possible!" engages young people in science, technology, engineering, art and math through embracing parents as partners in learning and making.
Community Votes: 5
MoreAnything’s Possible Climber Scale Model
Michael Nelson
We were challenged by the new El Paso Children's Museum and Science Center to create a scale model of a feature attraction of the museum, a-one-of-a-kind, four story climbing structure that will challenge kids of all ages.
Community Votes: 10
MoreDIY Solar Bottle Lamp
Debasish Dutta
Solar Bottle Lamp is a solar-powered light that is constructed from waste plastic bottles.
Community Votes: 24
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
MorePolite & Pleasant Greenway Passing Etiquette – a talking signaling bicycle helmet for safer cycling
Gary Yohe
This talking and signaling bike helmet assists greenway safety & courteous passing communication while bicycling.
Community Votes: 1
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
MoreShe Builds Robots
Christina Ernst
Free website for teen girls to learn art-centric robotic projects.
Community Votes: 30
MoreThe Device from Another Planet
Bill Ball
A 1950s radio signal generator converted to a classic sci-fi movie inspired plaything.
Community Votes: 3
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
MoreRebuilding a Derelict NCC-1701A Enterprise into a Sustainable Desk Top PC
Andrew Filo
Evoking Mr. Scott to Transforming a $1.00 eBay kit into a mechanically accessible and long-term upgradable Desk Top PC for 3D design, communications and FUN!
Community Votes: 3
MoreFour Muses
Alana Balagot
Four experimental robotic instruments are controlled wirelessly with a MIDI keyboard and LED matrix display in four different modes.
Community Votes: 3
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