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.
New multifunctional 3D printer concept
Rui Pires
New machine concept which allows to 3D print at 90° and 45°, CNC, laser, plotter and other tools.
Community Votes: 393
PICOmputer – Universal Pocket Computer & communicator
Peter Misenko
Raspberry Pi PICO based universal retrocomputer and communicator, specially designed for Circuitpython / Micropython programing
Community Votes: 7
Arduino Based Helicopter Collective Control
Kaleb Clark
Helicopter Collective Control for flight simulation based on an Arduino Micro.
Community Votes: 13
Air 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
DIY Solar Bottle Lamp
Debasish Dutta
Solar Bottle Lamp is a solar-powered light that is constructed from waste plastic bottles.
Community Votes: 24
3X0 – 3D Printed functional exoskeleton concept
Andrea Piccinno
3X0 is a concept of a modular functional exoskeleton. As a concept it's almost fully 3D printed. Functional means that it's meant to provide assistance to the user in different actions. Modular that each of its module can be stand alone.
Community Votes: 4
All-ages Geodesic Dome Design
Andrew Cegielski
An affordable and flexible all-ages way to build geodesic domes.
Community Votes: 83
She Builds Robots
Christina Ernst
Free website for teen girls to learn art-centric robotic projects.
Community Votes: 30
Craftin’ the The TeleCrafsMan
Ray Rumore
The TeleCrafsMan is a Telepresence Robot we created so the CrafsMan can attend events.
Community Votes: 246
Rebuilding 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
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
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
Auto Chasing Turtle
Noritsuna Imamura
By autonomous control, this robot recognizes a human's face and chases to the recognized human.
Community Votes: 5
Communication Robot for Nursing home
Yoshiharu Kawamura
Buddy-kun is a robot that talks, instructs and guides singing and gymnastics, and plays musical instruments in kindergartens and nursing homes.
Community Votes: 2
Pink-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
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
Polite & 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
RGB LED Scrolling Facemask
Lorraine Underwood
A facemask that scrolls what you're saying, transcribed from speech-to-text
Community Votes: 10
The Good Air Canary
Peter Milne
An open source IoT Canary that responds to Air Quality data from Sensors, and will squawk at poor air, and eventually fall of its perch if air quality is terrible - prompting you to take action!
Community Votes: 8
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
Road 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
IC4U3
Selin Alara Ornek
IC4U3 (I see for you - 3rd Version) is a robot guide dog for visually impaired people
Community Votes: 112
MAKE…a Difference
george ettenheim
This project is an effort to prototype a mobile vehicle based system to aide in rural disaster relief efforts.
Community Votes: 3
Mr. 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
