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.
Polystruder
Ali Torun
Polystruder is an upcoming open source 3d printer filament production line that is currently under heavy development.
Community Votes: 4
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
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
MoreLightsabers 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
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
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
MoreBluff 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
MoreDigital Cartridge for Super 8 Cameras
Clemens Mayer
A digital sensor drop in replacement for Super 8 film cartridges.
Community Votes: 12
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
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
MoreShe Builds Robots
Christina Ernst
Free website for teen girls to learn art-centric robotic projects.
Community Votes: 30
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
MoreDIY Stream Deck
Alex Super Make Something
A DIY Stream Deck built around Arduino to help people go live online!
Community Votes: 2
MoreCODED BREATH. A NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH Can we Develop an A.I. Powered Wireless Electronic-Nose that utilizes Machine Learning to identify the Volatile Organic Compounds of Fungal Pneumonia in our Breath?
Caleb Kodama
This project aims to determine if the volatile organic compounds of our breath can be used to diagnose fungal pneumonia, by developing an Electronic-Nose utilizing A.I. technology, while simultaneously transmitting patient data wirelessly
Community Votes: 4
MorePaper Airplane Windtunnel
Elizabeth Sallay
A small fan designed to create laminar flow to test the aerodynamics of your paper airplane.
Community Votes: 4
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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