Aeroponic parts

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I wanted to get started in aeroponics without buying the overpriced commercial setups. I designed the "wall tile" intending to create a living wall if I find that I am successful enough to get this all working. The "hexagonal" parts are so that I can put 6 tiles per level over a food-grade 5-gallon bucket (you can get these at home-brewing/beer-making places). The intent is to use a mist nozzle and a diaphragm pump and electronic timers to turn the pump and grow-lights on and off. We'll see how it goes, but I wanted to put the parts out there in case anyone else has similar interests. The feet are so I can use 3-inch diameter baskets and start seed in coconut coir inside my sprouter, then when they get big enough, transfer them into one of the wall tile spaces. Note that the parts are meant to be printed on smaller-scale printers like my own Robo3D R1+, and then fastened using M2x16mm stainless machine screws. No nuts are needed since these grip into the 2-mm-diameter plastic just fine in my experience. The roof center piece for the hexagonal tower still needs to be done, as does the side rail to allow for more than one hexagonal row. My intent for the roof piece is to allow for some kind of brass hook to be mounted there so that mist nozzle tubing can draped over it to have mist nozzles down the middle of the tube. I tried to design the pieces to not require supports while printing. The orientation of the STL files reflects how you would want to orient them for FDR (bottom-up deposition).