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.
iGoBot – 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
MoreMr. Bob – Robot Butler
Asad Grabovica
Around 15% of the world’s population has spme form of disability. We want to help those people so we crated a Robot butler which will be bringing things such as water and snacks to people wherever they are located in the house.
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
MoreSkupr 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
MoreGiganty’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
MoreEducational Robot Arm
Isaac Venezia
A low-cost robot arm designed to give more students access to robotics.
Community Votes: 6
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
MoreHacking Rubik’s Cube to control home appliances
Dhiraj Gehlot
Take automation to next level. Control any appliances with rubik's cube.
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
MoreHorse Bike
JAMES OWEN
Creat a Bike with eccentric wheels and a horse body with moveable legs and a sound clopping device.
Community Votes: 19
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
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
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
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
MoreMagic Hula Hoop
Douglas Wong
This project is intended to inspire people to become enthusiastic about STEM subjects so they can design amazing and wonderful devices themselves.
Community Votes: 2
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
MoreRemote-Controlled Robotic Leaf Blower
Brian Wiggin
Remote controlled leaf blowing robot utilizing a custom roof hoisting mechanism
Community Votes: 2
MoreGhostbuster 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
MoreThe Values Diagnostics Project
Sohum Uttamchandani
Matching caregivers and caretakers based on their values. Ensuring that care receivers get a desirable experience from caregivers, as well as caregivers get a stable and satisfying job.
Community Votes: 2
MorePolystruder
Ali Torun
Polystruder is an upcoming open source 3d printer filament production line that is currently under heavy development.
Community Votes: 4
MoreAMADEUS
Hari Srikanth
A drone that can autonomously generate a map of an environment
Community Votes: 59
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