I made a large flower press for my wife a few years ago when we were engaged so she could press ferns for our wedding invitations. She enjoyed it and how they came out. The other night we were discussing pressing flowers and how her big press was too big for doing just a flower or two. I decided it would be a fun idea to make a printable flower press. It's pretty basic but it will do the job.

I love growing herbs in my Aerogarden, and I enjoy trying out new seeds rather than buying the expensive kits from the manufacturer. I designed a replacement basket to fit into the Aerogarden Classic 7, which hold a piece of rockwool or other porous seed support material.

UPDATE: we're now about 3 weeks in to growing, and seeds germinated in all six baskets that I printed (there's also a control basket which is the original design from AG). I had only one casualty, which was purple basil, unfortunately I didn't seat the basket correctly, and the sponge dried out. The baskets seem to be biocompatible and stable so far!

The Bugginator is the derivative of tweezers and gardening tools. The Bugginator is designed to grab, hold, remove, relocate, and exterminate bug invaders of gardens, houses, and anywhere where there are unwanted varmints. It improves existing designs because there are no tools specifically designed for removing or exterminating bugs without the use of chemicals. Its better to use the Bugginator instead of using regular tweezers, gloves, or pliers because the Bugginator is designed with edges that are wide, elongated, and serrated. That way it is much harder for the bug to escape, no matter what kind of bug it is. It is much easier to pick up and handle bugs with this tool.

I started working on this before arkatipe uploaded his spike with threads. This is the difference(); of his spike and my 2L bottle threads: thingiverse.com/thing:10489

I'm leaving for my honeymoon in a couple of weeks, so I needed a way to keep my plants alive between the times when the neighbor will stop in to water everything. So I made this watering spike.

My bit of testing showed that it took about 12 hours on average for the water in the 2L bottle to drain. It lasts a little longer if the ground is wet to begin with.

EDIT 7/26/11: Spike with Threads added. This one also includes 3 "fill layers" in the middle of the spike, which makes a sort of filter at 90% fill. It slows down the drainage a little bit, and keeps particles from being sucked up into the bottle.

This is a watering spout for a 2L bottle.

I originally designed this so that a bottle cap could be press fit onto the sprinkler once it was done printing. However (at least on my printer) the plastic came out a little bit too small. This meant that I could screw it onto the bottle without the addition of a hollowed out bottle cap.

But if yours prints the right size then you'll probably have to do this. You'll just need to drill a hole in a bottle cap and press it into the sprinkler head. The addition of hot water would make this easier.

My thoughts behind this were mostly recycling - oriented. If you're saving the bottle, you might as well save the bottle cap, too, and this way you know you have something with a water tight cap (though this isn't important as leaking is kind of the point)

Also, I know this uses more plastic than is necessary. But that's kind of the point of a 3D printer. This technology lets us make things that aren't cheap pieces of crap. So enjoy the 1/8"-thick walls on a piece of plastic. You can't get that in the store.

Edit: Check out thingiverse.com/thing:10600 for ljudmila's version with threads.

A cutbag contest entry. A hanging planter that grows upside down tomatoes or strawberries etc. These planters have been around for quite some time. They have recently been sold at drugstores and such in the "as seen on TV" section under various brands. You may have seen "Topsy Turvy" planters or "Bottoms Up" planters around. Here are some links to more information.

containergardening.about.com/od/vegetablesandherbs/a/UpsideDownTomatoes.htm

instructables.com/id/how-to-plant-hanging-upsidedown-tomatoes/

oklahomahistory.net/tomatos.html

howdididoit.com/home-garden/how-to-grow-hanging-tomato-plants/

My wife wanted a skinny pot and we also need a new orchid pot, so I modified hathawsh's design to be parametric.
This is a work in progress because I haven't actually printed it so I don't know how it will work.

I'm designing a DIY water farming system. The ideas come from the zengrow.com machines, which have a very simple working principle. It doesn't suit all edible plants as is, but is great for the kinds that you can buy pregrown in little plastic pots.

Btw. I'm in no way affiliated with zengrow.com, they just happen to sell useful stuff ;). Another good source is gb.eurohydro.com/waterfarm.html and their distributors.

Update:
I've now printed the tube connector. It feels good, we'll see how much it leaks :). A bit of leaking doesn't hurt, as long as most of the water goes where it should be. Another concerns is how noisy it is, since my hacked up system was horrible in that regard. Now I'm printing the plant holder...

It works! See the new pics. I've compactified the plant holder parts, but it's still too big for these containers that I have, and not strictly necessary, as can be seen from the pics. But especially for bigger non round containers, it should be useful for guiding the tube.

I've now got the prototype working, we'll see how the plants like it. The first one is sprouting already.

A little 190ml watering can for watering your houseplant / deskplant.
I haven't yet made or modelled this as I don't have a makerbot. yet.

UPDATE: On closer inspection, I shortened the length so that it can fit in the makerbot build space. A slightly less pleasing capacity of 190ml (was 200!).

Have added a couple of feet on the back edge so that it can hopefully be printed sitting on its back, longest side sitting vertically. These should be cut or grinded off once printed. Comments welcomed below.

Quickie design for my wives herb garden...

This is just a little plastic spike with a "fork" arrangement at the top designed to grip cards (or empty seed packets) so you can display a label in a pot while waiting for the seeds to germinate.

Designed for an upcoming robotics competition at WPI in which the robots must "improve quality of life" in some way:

Bloombot is an open-source automated hydroponics system that aims to build community and increase the engagement of people with their food. Bloombot is capable of growing plants like lettuces and herbs throughout the year and, through use of Twitter integration hopes to build off the work of other products (like AeroGrow and Botanicalls) to integrate some of their functionality to produce a machine that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Still working on finishing up the parts list but it's almost complete.

No, not that kind of hydroponic pot. This is just a little plastic tub with a mesh bottom that you fill with vermiculite, perlite, clay balls etc. and plant hydroponic plants in. The pots then go into 45mm or 55mm holes drilled in a piece of 100x50mm rectangular downpipe to form a [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrient_film_technique ] Nutrient Film Technique (NFT) hydroponic system. I grow a lot of tomatoes, beans, lettuce, brassica, celery, basil etc. in my NFT runs but the pots keep on breaking.

Now I don't need to worry. Even if the plant bursts the pot, at the end of the growing season I'll just throw the whole lot in the compost heap and print another one. They should stack, so you can keep a few ready to hand. It's cool using your RepRap to help grow food!

A device for picking out of reach fruit, e.g. pears. A pair of secateurs is clamped to the end of a pipe and operated remotely by a string threaded through an eyelet by pulling on a handle. See hydraraptor.blogspot.com/2009/09/pear-shaped.html.

This is the lid (blue part) for the aeroponic garden. Includes 6 holes for seed pods ( thingiverse.com/thing:695 ), a hole for the airline tubing, and a 1" hole for adding water. Cut out of 1/8 or 1/4 inch acrylic.

Details of my DIY aeroponics project can be found on kellbot.com

These are laser cut seed pod holders for a homebrew aeroponic setup I'm building. These should in theory fit an AeroGarden SpaceSaver 3 or 6, but as I don't have one to test with I'm not sure.

More details on my DIY Aeroponic setup are on my blog, kellbot.com

Fits on the end of a pole to support the overladen branches of a fruit tree. More details in my blog: hydraraptor.blogspot.com/2008/08/bearing-fruit.html