Night, white
Compact puppet theatre
A red toy puppet theatre with a little stage on every side, up to four laptops inside, the stages light up at night. 93 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
- 0.93 m
- Footprint
- 51 × 51 cm
- Computers
- 4 laptops
- Power
- 1 power supply, 120 of 260 W
- Filament
- 12.4 kg
- Print time
- 673 h
- OrcaSlicer estimate, ±15 %
- Weight with boards
- 16.5 kg
- Parts and filament, without boards
- €448
- With used laptops (€40–60 each)
- €608–688
About this model
A toy puppet theatre of no particular make: a red base cabinet with a yellow panel frame on each row of every side, under a red stage box with a yellow crest and four finials on top. Each side of the stage box has a wide opening with a scalloped valance and two red drapes tied back, and inside it a small stage: two hills with a cottage in the valley and two poplar trees in a hedge, cut out of red sheets, standing in front of a yellow backdrop. By day the red scene stands out against the yellow, though the red drapes almost vanish into the red box; at night the backdrop is lit from behind, the scene stands dark in front of it and the cottage window and door glow, on all four sides. Up to four laptop blades stand in a row in the cabinet. Its walls are solid, so from outside you never see a computer board; the panel frames are glued on. Air comes in through the slatted vents in the plinth and leaves through the stage openings. You pick 2, 3 or 4 computers and the model stays the same size: 0.51 x 0.51 m, 93 cm tall.
Worth knowing
About 10.7 kg of filament with two computers and 12.4 kg with four (roughly 360 to 420 hours on a fast printer), in two colours: red for the cabinet, the stage box with its drapes and the flats of the scene, and yellow for the panel frames, the backdrop with its floor, the crest and the finials. The stage box is printed in nine cells with a thin 1.2 mm top skin and glued together, so handle it with care. The scenery is thin sheets glued on their edge, so it is delicate too. The red drapes are the same red as the box, so by day they are hard to see. The crest, the finials and the drapes are decoration, never lift the stage box by them. It needs two 1 m LED strips, one for each half of the backdrop. The stage box (plate, box, stage set and crest glued into one) is not glued down because it is the way in; lift it straight up with both hands by two corners of its skirt.
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 (on the inside of the yellow backdrop in the stage box, one per half, the backdrop glows behind the scene) | 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 | €448 | ||
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 673 h with the standard 0.4 mm nozzle (Ender-3 V3 SE class), 417 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.