Seedling Grid and Pots

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This started as a remix of Seedling Grid and Pots by Kuiko. Initially, having printed a V2 pot and base, I discovered that the base needed a lot of gentle persuasion to get a reasonable fit in the pot, so my initial plan was to make a smaller friction-fit base. Then I thought about it more and decided that an even smaller pot base supported by small tabs inside the pot would make it easier to remove the germinated seedling by pushing the base up with a tamper or finger; plus the root system was less likely to get damaged when removing the baby plant. Thinking about it still, a tamper with a gentle taper on its top end could also be used as a dibber, and some shorter pots would be nice, and being able to quickly create grids of sizes other than 5 by 4 would be useful too. So I sat down with a clean slate in Fusion 360 and here we are. There is still a nod to the original design in the size of the pot and the use of corner tabs in the grid to hold the pots, an idea I extended into the pots themselves to hold the bases.