Night, white
Compact carousel
A fairground carousel with a red and white canopy and eight horses, up to four laptops in the drum, the crown glowing at night. Under 1 m.
Designed and checked in CAD. Not built in real life yet.
€24
Standard plan. Every computer count included.
Inside
Take it apart
Size
How many computers?
- Height
- 0.99 m
- Footprint
- 81 × 81 cm
- Computers
- 4 laptops
- Power
- 1 power supply, 120 of 260 W
- Filament
- 12.6 kg
- Print time
- 662 h
- OrcaSlicer estimate, ±15 %
- Weight with boards
- 16.6 kg
- Parts and filament, without boards
- €469
- With used laptops (€40–60 each)
- €629–709
About this model
A carousel of no particular fair: a sixteen-sided canopy in red and white stripes with a scalloped valance, a crown with a pennant on top, eight horses on poles round a panelled centre drum, all on a round deck. Up to four laptop blades stand in a row inside the drum. The drum is solid, so from outside you see panels and horses, never a computer board. Air comes in through the arches in the deck rim and the slatted vents in the plinth behind them and leaves through the crown's windows, which glow at night while a strip under the valance lights the horses. You pick 2, 3 or 4 computers and the model stays the same size: 0.81 x 0.81 m, under 1 m tall.
Worth knowing
About 10.8 kg of filament with two computers and 12.6 kg with four (roughly 350 to 410 hours on a fast printer), in two colours: red and white. The horses are flat shapes, not carved, and there is a lot of gluing: 36 kinds of parts, a sixteen-sided canopy of thin flat panels on eight rafters, and each horse hangs on a pole of three glued pieces. Let the glue dry before you lift anything. The carousel is static: nothing turns. The canopy is not glued down because it is the way in; lift it straight up with both hands.
Shopping list
What to buy for it
| Item | Qty | Price each | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shared supply MEAN WELL GST280A20-C6P | 1 | €93.80 | Shop |
| Mains cord C13, 2 m, one per supply (not in the supply's box) | 1 | €3.60 | Shop |
| Supply output lead Molex 215328-1061 | 1 | €5.20 | Shop |
| XT60 pigtails, 5 + 5 pack (one pair per blade) | 1 | €11.09 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Wago 221-412 (2-way), single pieces: 4 per blade (red+fuse, fuse+white, black+black, blue alone) | 16 | €0.55 | Shop |
| Wago 221-415 (5-way), single pieces: 4 for the bus + 2 per extra supply | 4 | €0.80 | Shop |
| ELNONE board plug, 2 pack (one per blade) | 2 | €8.56 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| JZK 5015 USB fans, 4 pack (blade heads + 4 base intake fans) | 2 | €13.61 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Fuse holders, 5 pack (blades) | 1 | €6.82 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| 5 A fuses, 10 pack | 1 | €6.75 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Keystone couplers, 10 pack | 1 | €14.36 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Patch 0.25 m, 10 pack | 1 | €12.85 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Patch 2 m, 5 pack | 1 | €11.09 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Switch Cudy GS105U 5-port | 1 | €13.01 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| USB charger 50 W, 5 ports | 2 | €9.52 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| OULARA COB USB strip 2 m (model glow) | 2 | €21.17 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| OULARA COB USB strip 1 m (one to close the valance ring + one round the roof plate, it lights the crown) | 2 | €14.11 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| M3 screws, 300 pcs | 1 | €14.05 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Translucent PETG 1 kg (eSUN transparent orange) | 1 | €12.37 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Opaque PETG 1 kg spool (eSUN black, budget; sold as a 4 kg bundle) | 13 | €9.07 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Total, without boards | €469 | ||
Prices with VAT as shown in October 2026. Shipping, glue and the boards are not included. Also not counted, if you do not own them: a multimeter (about €8.56) and a power strip (about €15.12).
Budget black PETG.
Drives: every board keeps the drive its laptop came with (system only), so there is nothing to buy. A board bought without one needs a 256 GB M.2 2280 drive (approx. €56). Optional, not in the total: one shared disk of 1 TB or more for the render manager's shared folder, on one laptop board, in its own M.2 slot, or in a USB case (approx. €19) on the base floor. Reuse an old one, or buy a 1 TB M.2 2280 drive for approx. €136–146. Drive prices are approximate (October 2026): check before buying.
No printer yet?
To print it at this size: 12.6 kg of PETG. Add 10% for waste and test pieces and that is 14 spools of 1 kg, approx. €196–266 with the PETG below (the shopping list above already includes filament). Print time, estimated: about 662 h with the standard 0.4 mm nozzle (Ender-3 V3 SE class), 413 h with a 0.6 mm nozzle.
Print times are slicer estimates (OrcaSlicer) and may vary by ±15 %.
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Printers that take every part (bed 220 × 220 mm or more): Creality Ender-3 V3 SE (€169) · Bambu Lab A1 (€259) · Bambu Lab P1S (€379)
PETG: Elegoo PETG Pro, 1 kg (€13.99/kg) · Bambu PETG Basic, 1 kg with spool (€18.99/kg)
Prices as shown on each shop's own page in October 2026. Shipping and the final VAT are added at checkout.