Night, white
Compact toy lantern (3D)
A chunky old-style toy lantern with up to four laptops inside: a round amber glass body in a dark green cage, a domed cap with a chimney and a big carry loop; at night the whole glass glows warm. 99.3 cm tall.
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
- 101 × 101 cm
- Computers
- 4 laptops
- Power
- 1 power supply, 120 of 260 W
- Filament
- 12.4 kg
- Print time
- 634 h
- OrcaSlicer estimate, ±15 %
- Weight with boards
- 16.4 kg
- Parts and filament, without boards
- €463
- With used laptops (€40–60 each)
- €623–703
About this model
A generic toy lantern, like a big old camping or ship's lantern made as a toy, not a copy of any real lantern, product or character. The lantern itself is the model: a round body of translucent amber filament (the glass), widest a third of the way up, on a dark green base ring; eight dark green cage bars bow out round the glass from the base ring to the top. On top sits a dark green domed cap with a pointed chimney, and a big round carry loop (the bail) arches over it. Inside the glass sits the case with up to four laptop boards, hidden: no board can be seen from outside. The cap is the hatch: lift it off to reach the boards. The air comes in under the base ring and leaves through four tall vent slots in the front of the cap; at night a strip round the case lights the whole glass from inside and the slots glow.
Worth knowing
About 10.6 kg of filament with two computers and 12.4 kg with four (roughly 339 to 398 hours on a fast printer), in three colours: dark green for the base ring, the cap, the chimney, the bail, the cage bars, the flange and the spacers; translucent amber for the glass; white for the case walls (hidden inside), the roof plate, the inner wall, the vent slot linings and the floor ring. The bail and the cage bars are glued from short hollow tube pieces with 0.9 to 1 mm walls: they are decoration, never carry the lantern by the bail.
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 on the inside of the white liner in the cap, it lights the back spots; one on the liner's front face behind the four vent slots) | 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) | 2 | €12.37 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Opaque PETG 1 kg spool (eSUN black, budget; sold as a 4 kg bundle) | 11 | €9.07 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Total, without boards | €463 | ||
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: 12.4 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 634 h with the standard 0.4 mm nozzle (Ender-3 V3 SE class), 398 h with a 0.6 mm nozzle.
Print times are slicer estimates (OrcaSlicer) and may vary by ±15 %.
Advertising: the links in this list are affiliate links. If you buy through them I earn a small commission. The price for you does not change.
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
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.