You'll need a pallet or wooden slats to hold the parts.
There's a single mount that holds any size of vase (small, medium and big).
I design the vases like cubes because it's easier to print and have a modern look.
There is a hole template for mounts' distance for each vase size.
The automatic drip irrigation system is still being implemented but I already designed the hoses fixings. I used air systems tubing (PU) to distribute the water from a PET bottle (6mm ext and 4mm int) and the goal is to add a bigger reservoir on top of everything.
The drip control is from ggoss, Roller Clamp for Flexible Tubing (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:174398) and I added a roller with no axle so you can insert a metal axle (3mm axle to get interference), because the 3d printed one always break.
The flexible tubing (10 mm ext and 6mm int) goes very well with the PU tubing and can be very leak proof with some zip ties. You won't need much of the flexible tubing, which is more expensive than PU, since it just goes through the clamp body (~15 cm).
You should use one clamp for each vase because each plant has a good amount of water. The clamp body can be drilled to get fastened to the pallet.
Will try some ABS in the future, but PETG gets leak proof with only 2 loops (vertical shell). Mounts and fixings can be printed many each time to improve printing time.
| 10mm_hose_clamp.stl | 91.7KB | |
| 6mm_hose_clamp.stl | 86.2KB | |
| Holes_Template.stl | 583.8KB | |
| PET_bottle_holder.stl | 230.1KB | |
| Roller.stl | 49.2KB | |
| Roller_clamp_body.stl | 25.9KB | |
| Roller_large.stl | 49.3KB | |
| Roller_no_axle.stl | 69.9KB | |
| Standard_support.stl | 186.6KB | |
| Vase_-_Big.stl | 34.9KB | |
| Vase_-_Medium.stl | 34.9KB | |
| Vase_-_Small.stl | 34.9KB |
