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Strawberry Stakes (now working with other plants)

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No Text version, 5 stakes
No Text version, 5 stakes
Designer
58 min
1 plate
5.0(9)

Whimsical Text version, 5 stakes
Whimsical Text version, 5 stakes
Designer
1.2 h
1 plate
5.0(2)

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill
0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill
Designer
1.9 h
1 plate
5.0(1)

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Description

My wife has been having issues with some sort of pest devouring her strawberries just before they were ripe enough to be harvested. This, of course, became my problem.

 

I looked for solutions and came across a number of strawberry supports to lift them off the ground and gave her the choice of printing which she thought would be the best option. She decided that the supports that surround the plant would be ideal except for the fact that her strawberry plants are all in too close of proximity to one another. Her choice was this: https://makerworld.com/en/models/477848?from=search#profileId-388959

 

I set out to print a nice set of them and of course my printer messed up on one of them an hour in. Unfortunately, I encountered a bug in the Bambu software that wouldn't allow me to skip the stake in question and I had to cancel the entire print. This absolutely had nothing to do with the original model. However, it made me realize that the stakes that I had been printing were completely functional even though they were only halfway done. This led me to designing a similar stake from the ground up.

 

The changes that I made improved on a few different areas: significantly faster printing time and lower material usage (approximately half for both), optimized dimensions (supports the strawberries 60mm above the ground with 110mm submerged), and removed the upper half of the prongs on the stake which I felt were unnecessarily long (this contributed to the lower material cost and faster printing)

 

 

Recently I've been informed that not only do these work with strawberries but it turns out they're universal! Now you can use them with other fruits and vegetables in your garden like green beans and edamame!

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