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.
Educational Robot Arm
Isaac Venezia
A low-cost robot arm designed to give more students access to robotics.
Community Votes: 6
MoreBe the Hamster
Joe Donoughe
I have created an 8' tall hamster wheel, that when a kid gets in it and start running, it grinds up ice to make a snow cone.
Community Votes: 6
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
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
MoreSmart City of Vukovar – Our view of smart living
Davor Sijanovic
This magnificent model offers a solution in a greater electricity saving, better use of a solar Sun power panels, and reducing the traffic jams on the road as well as around the parking lots.
Community Votes: 2
MoreAMADEUS
Hari Srikanth
A drone that can autonomously generate a map of an environment
Community Votes: 59
MoreThe 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
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
MoreHalloween Candy Mortar
Paul McCabe
Candy in a 35mm film container is launched towards a trick-or-treater when they step on a foot pedal 50 feet away from the launcher.
Community Votes: 2
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
More8bit
Hirotaka Niisato
8 bit is an application work uses the operating principle of a superconducting quantum computer gate control microwaves.
Community Votes: 3
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
MoreBLE 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
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
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
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
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
MoreRemote-Controlled Robotic Leaf Blower
Brian Wiggin
Remote controlled leaf blowing robot utilizing a custom roof hoisting mechanism
Community Votes: 2
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
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
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
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