Twisted Hex Headphone Stand for AirPods Max (weighted, 3-part, no supports)

A headphone stand in the same family as my twisted hex vases for LEGO Botanicals. Designed around the Apple AirPods Max, but any full-size headphones with a headband up to about 40 mm wide will sit on it.

What's different about it:

Cradle, not a peg. The arch has a 40 mm channel with 45° sides rising to rounded lips front and back, so the headband self-centres and won't slide off if the stand is knocked.

Weighted foot. The foot is hollow (about 90 cm³) with a screw-in base plug. Fill it with steel BBs (roughly 450 g), dry sand or rice, then screw the plug in with a coin. The ballast sits low, so the stand doesn't tip with headphones hanging on it.

One look, three parts, no supports. The twisted body runs up into a vase-style mouth that wraps round the arch, so the joint reads as one piece. Body prints upright, arch prints on its back, plug prints face down. Nothing needs supports.

Size: 216 mm tall, foot 121 × 115 mm, arch 138 mm wide. Fits a 220 mm build height (Flashforge AD5M Pro).

Files

airpods-max-stand-body.stl — print upright with a brim (it stands on a ring round the thread). 216 mm tall.

airpods-max-stand-arch.stl — already lying on its back, print as is.

airpods-max-stand-base-plug.stl — print with the flat face down.

airpods_max_stand.scad — the OpenSCAD source. Everything is a parameter: channel width, lip height, twist, foot size, thread clearance, and a plug_text switch with msg_lines if you want a message debossed into the underside of the plug (that's what mine has: it's a birthday present).

Print settings (PLA, 0.4 nozzle, 0.2 mm layers)

2 wall loops with Lightning infill for the body keeps the print to about 2 h 40 min / 75 g on an AD5M Pro. Add a height-range modifier with 5 wall loops for the bottom 15 mm (around the thread) and 4 loops for the top 46 mm (the mouth walls), so those print solid.

Turn auto-supports OFF. Elephant-foot compensation 0.15–0.2 mm helps the thread start and the arch fit.

The arch drops into the slot with 0.3 mm clearance per side and locates on a 12 mm pin. The plug has a coarse pitch-9 thread with 0.4 mm clearance. If either is tight on your printer, adjust slot_clear / thread_clear in the .scad.

Before committing to the full body, print the plug plus the bottom 15 mm of the body to check the thread, and the arch plus the top 45 mm to check the slot.

Measure your headband: the channel floor is 40 mm wide (channel_w). If your headband is wider, change it and re-export.