
Night, white
Compact toy owl (3D)
A chunky toy owl with up to four laptops inside its round body: a brown egg-shaped body with folded wings, a cream belly, toes and tail, a cream heart-shaped face on a rounded head with ear tufts, and at night its two big eyes and a row of feathers on its neck glow. 99.5 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
- 90 × 77 cm
- Computers
- 4 laptops
- Power
- 1 power supply, 120 of 260 W
- Filament
- 12.2 kg
- Print time
- 628 h
- OrcaSlicer estimate, ±15 %
- Weight with boards
- 16.2 kg
- Parts and filament, without boards
- €439
- With used laptops (€40–60 each)
- €599–679
About this model
A generic chunky toy owl, like a wooden toy owl, not a copy of any real toy or character. The owl itself is the model: a round, pear-shaped brown body that is widest a third of the way up and narrows to the shoulders, two folded wings that lie on its sides and follow its curve, with five pointed feathers and their tips tucked down towards the tail, a cream belly with rows of feather slots, three cream toes on each foot and a fan of three tail feathers resting on the floor behind it; on top a rounded head with two ear tufts and a sunken cream face disc shaped like a heart, holding two big eye rings and a cream beak; at the back of the neck two rows of feather slots. The computers are in its body: up to four laptop blades stand in a row inside a square case that is completely hidden inside the round body, so you never see a board or a box from outside. Air comes in under the rim of the body and through the slatted vents at the foot of the case, and leaves through the two eyes; at night one LED strip lights the wall behind the eyes and, across the head, the cream panel behind the neck feathers, a second one, wound round the eye rings, makes both eyes glow from every side, and a brown pupil in the middle of each eye looks at you. You pick 2, 3 or 4 computers and the owl stays the same size: 0.90 x 0.77 m with the wings, toes and tail, 99.5 cm to the tips of the tufts.
Worth knowing
About 10.5 kg of filament with two computers and 12.2 kg with four (roughly 340 to 400 hours on a fast printer), in two colours: brown for the body and head, the wings, the ear tufts, the head flange, the spacers and the pupils, and cream for the case walls (hidden inside), the roof plate, the belly, the face disc with the eye rings, the neck panels, the beak, the toes, the tail and the inner wall behind the eyes. The body and the head are 0.8 mm skins in 36 and 23 pieces that overlap on short tongues; they carry nothing but themselves, so never lift the owl by the body, the wings, the tufts or the eyes - take the hatch off and lift the case by its top rim. How well the 0.8 mm panels keep their shape has only been worked out on paper, not seen on a real print. The hatch (plate, head, eyes, beak and tufts glued into one) is not glued down because it is the way in; lift it straight up with both hands round the head. It is a static desk model.
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) | 1 | €21.17 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| OULARA COB USB strip 1 m (one on the inside of the cream liner behind the owl's eyes, one wound round the two cream eye tubes, half each) | 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) | 12 | €9.07 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Total, without boards | €439 | ||
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: 12.2 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 628 h with the standard 0.4 mm nozzle (Ender-3 V3 SE class), 394 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.