This is a Vertical Project Storage System (VPSS).

This VPSS uses wall-attached mounting points and removable/relocatable bins, shelves, and other accessories to contain all the physical parts associated with one or more projects-in-progress together in one place.

It is intended to do so in a way that allows users to quickly gather the parts needed to continue work on any individual project with as little starting resistance as possible.

The intent is that a user will be able grab one (1) container and have the entirety of one project-in-progress in their hands, ready to move to their work area and proceed.

It has further design goals of 1) allowing users to store multiple projects-in-progress, 2) do so in a visible yet still-pleasant way, 3) utilise otherwise difficult or unusable locations in a room, and 4) serve as a visible but non-intrusive inventory of projects in progress.

As a side effect of the work so far, it also serves as a general-purpose shelving and storage system, one particularly well suited for narrow sections of wall which cannot otherwise be used.

Core system accessories include storage bins, shelves, and mountplates for attaching to arbitrary boxes and other containers with at least one flat edge. These mountplates allow the user to use any storage container they wish, within physical limits.

Other accessories include number plates (used to refer to projects too large to store on the wall and stored elsewhere, an extension of the inventory functionality), and honeycomb pegboard system adapters which allow RostaP's honeycomb storage accessories to be used with this system.

(See https://www.printables.com/model/152592-honeycomb-storage-wall/files for information on the honeycomb rack storage system.)

All components used in testing so far have been printed in ordinary PLA. So far, none have failed.

If you build any of this and have any feedback please let me know. I'm finding the system very useful but I'm only one data point. Thanks!

PREVIOUS PROJECT UPDATES, in reverse chronological order:

UPDATE 2023/11/4: Honeycomb-system-mounted base unit to use my system's accessories with their system

I added an adapter to let people use vertical project storage system accessories with honeycomb storage system backplanes, because hey, why not? It's an alpha, but it's here.

UPDATE 2023/10/30: Honeycomb models updated, should be good!

I did some solid testing on the new honeycomb designs and they're working. These models have a slight change in that I widened the retaining bar to fix an overhang and give it bit more strength, though honestly making them shorter would've done about as well. Regardless, I think these models are good to go.

UPDATE 2023/10/28: Some testing done, models are good so far.

Pretty sure the new honeycomb models are solid, I've verified dimensions against reference material and it's solid. I can't sign off completely until I've printed slow-speed high-precision versions, which I'm doing right now, but I think we're okay. I've removed old (rotated) models since they would most likely cause confusion and while honestly they're a little better in a few ways they aren't in others.

UPDATE 2023/10/27: I DIDN'T THINK OF SOMETHING

The honeycomb units I uploaded stacked rotated in order to permit more combs worked okay with the test objects I had, BUT they DON'T work with things like honeycomb SHELVES.

I've uploaded a quick fix version, both prefixed ALPHA, eight and four rows high, standard orientations. If you want accessories that aren't hooks, you MUSTuse the ALPHA versions where the hexagonal holes have planes at the tops and bottoms, NOT vertices.

UPDATE 2023/10/23: I decided to make adapters so you could use honeycomb storage wall accessories too, while retaining the ability to relocate projects - and even chunks of honeycomb. There are three sizes, 5.5X (extra large), 5X (large), and 3X (standard), giving you 9, 8, and 4 rows of honeycomb respectively.

The 5.5X units will stack on top of each other to form a big column of honeycomb, though I don't know why you'd do that. The downside of that is that it creates more interference with other accessories immediately above and below any 5.5X height unit.

The 5X and 3X height units have none of these issues and stack normally with arbitrary other accessories.

If you're unfamiliar with the honeycomb project - which is basically a better pegboard system - you can find it here:

https://www.printables.com/model/152592-honeycomb-storage-wall/files

UPDATE 2023/5/30: I decided the boxes were ugly / inadequate, so I've come up with a graphic system to reference and make visible boxes stored in, say, a nearby closet. These would be for larger projects that don't fit on one of the shelves or bins, letting them be put elsewhere while still remaining visible.

The new number plates are intended to have a writing area, you can attach notes or better yet some sort of dry-erase material and use dry-erase markers on them. (That's my plan, but since I'm out of that at the moment I went with notes for demonstration purposes.) The heights of each surface on the plate are staggered so that you can make them all different colours even with a single-nozzle printer like mine. ^_^ These were printed with Filament Friday extra-high-speed profiles too, so you don't have to worry about being fussy with settings.

Then you take them and glue or double-sided-tape them to either the single-height or double-height box mounts, giving you a purpose for your old box-mounts, and also making the single-height mount actually practical for something since it was the weakest part of this design so far. Now it's a number holder and has a purpose again. ^_^

UPDATE 2023/2/24: I've found that I have some use for single, free-floating-ish wall mounting points, not just the main collected wall unit. And I've put up near my work desk. I tried using Command Strips, but they kept coming off the PLA. Then I tried carpet tape and that did the same thing, it just took longer. So then I tried plastic-epoxy to add a layer of aluminium foil on the back of the wall plate and that held to the PLA, but the other adhesives still kept coming off.

So I made a version with nail holes. I'm also using removable poster tape. But the nails are doing most of the work. And it's so much better that I've uploaded the .STL, making this the first official project update.

More to come!