Night, white
Compact Maya pyramid
A stepped Maya temple pyramid with up to four laptops inside, the temple on top 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
- 0.97 m
- Footprint
- 96 × 84 cm
- Computers
- 4 laptops
- Power
- 1 power supply, 120 of 260 W
- Filament
- 16.5 kg
- Print time
- 913 h
- OrcaSlicer estimate, ±15 %
- Weight with boards
- 20.5 kg
- Parts and filament, without boards
- €470
- With used laptops (€40–60 each)
- €630–710
About this model
A Maya temple pyramid of no particular site: nine stepped terraces, one steep stair up the front between two balustrades, and on the platform a small temple with three doorways and a pierced roof comb. Up to four laptop blades stand in a row inside the pyramid. Its walls are solid, so from outside you see stone steps, never a computer board. Air comes in through slatted vents low in the base and leaves through the temple: out of the doorways and up through the roof comb, which both glow at night. You pick 2, 3 or 4 computers and the pyramid stays the same size: 0.96 x 0.84 m with the stair, under 1 m tall.
Worth knowing
This is the heaviest compact model: about 14.7 kg of filament with two computers and 16.5 kg with four (roughly 505 to 564 hours on a fast printer), more than the compact castle (14.6 kg at four) or the windmill (11.9 kg). A pyramid is mostly shell, and the shell is the same with two computers as with four, so most of the filament goes into it either way. The bottom-row pieces are 22 cm tall, so your printer needs a build height of at least 220 mm. The platform with the temple is not glued down because it is the way in; lift it 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) | 1 | €21.17 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| OULARA COB USB strip 1 m (round the temple's ceiling, it lights the doorways and the roof comb) | 1 | €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) | 17 | €9.07 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
| Total, without boards | €470 | ||
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: 16.5 kg of PETG. Add 10% for waste and test pieces and that is 19 spools of 1 kg, approx. €266–361 with the PETG below (the shopping list above already includes filament). Print time, estimated: about 913 h with the standard 0.4 mm nozzle (Ender-3 V3 SE class), 564 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.