super awesome Plant Clip - with teeth and closeable

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The title says it all - The super awesome Plant Clip from PeterZwegat is indeed super awesome. I like it a lot and have printed many clips. However, there were two shortcomings that bothered me, leading to this remix, which will be explained below. I loved the inner joint mechanism and tried to remodel it in OpenScad. I'm really excited that it works amazingly well. The idea of using a spring mechanism to make it self-closing is cute, but it didn't work with my strong tomato plants. Another issue with the original clip was that there were very sharp edges that could hurt the plant when attaching the clip. So, I needed something that would really close the clip, which is why I decided to build a simple locking mechanism, making the spring obsolete. That version worked pretty well, and I was very happy with the results. With the model created in OpenScad, I can now print various sizes. It's actually already configurable (radius, "wall size", joint size, height, etc.), but I'm embarrassed with my coding, so until I clean it up, I won't share it. Please let me know if you'd like me to support other sizes than what I've currently published as STLs. Next, there was another shortcoming of my remixed version - the clip didn't really hold on the plant support. That's why I added the version with teeth! With this, the super awesome plant clip got even more awesome. It attaches now to any plant support and stays where you put it. Simply tilt the teeth a bit before attaching to the support. It's ultra easy to print. Once the print is complete, just press the clip together, and you're good to go. Enjoy it, and thanks to PeterZwegat for his awesome work!