the device

K4

A buildable tetrahedral electromagnetic control instrument: six 100 mm wire edges and four air-core vertex coils, driven as a live magnetic field engine by an inverse solver, held to graded claims, and small enough to hold in your hand.

Magnetic engine
live
Electric side
preview
Geometry
v1build
Claims
graded
[G*] filament-bundle browser modelB-only . DC + audio bandno exotic force claimed

Not a new force - an engineering stack over established electromagnetics.

K4 is a graph geometry, an inverse solver, and a physical build, wrapped in the habit of labeling exactly what is proven, simulated, heuristic, or still pending. The magnetic engine is live in your browser; the electric side stays an explicit preview until its export is verified.

The physical instrument

V1 is deliberately simple: six 100 mm edges of AWG22 magnet wire forming a regular tetrahedron, plus four air-core vertex coils. Straight copper and printed formers - no magnets and no exotic materials in the baseline.

K4 V1 edge cross-section - AWG22 bundle

The V1 edge in cross-section (AWG22 bundle). Assembled-device photo drops in here.

Edges6 x 100 mm
AWG22 magnet wire, straight 18-strand bundle (6/6/6).
Geometryregular tetrahedron
Vertex to centroid 61.24 mm; edge midpoint 35.36 mm.
Vertex coils4 x air-core
Dayton LW181 loop-stack, 192 turns, +25 mm outward.
VC coupling59.19 uT/A
Engine-calibrated from F_0_v1build.
Drive6 edges + 4 coils
Ten independent current channels.
Field model[G*] filament-exact
A straight bundle is filament-equivalent at the centroid.

How the control works

One short chain, assumptions attached. The point is not exotic physics; it is separating a requested field into currents a real build can carry.

step 1

Six edges become two current families: cycle and cut.

step 2

Cycle reaches centroid B; cut stays silent there by symmetry.

step 3

The inverse solver turns a requested field into physical edge and coil currents.

step 4

Every bench number carries its regime, claim class, and hardware limit.

where to go

Ask the instrument for a field.

The Explorer is the verified browser path: pick a target B, solve for real edge and coil currents, and read the hardware cost. The Log is the dated build stream, assumptions still attached.

also on k4forge

日本GO - Japanese learning games

A separate project sharing the same site: kana rain, sentence building, and more. Independent of the K4 instrument, with its own build and content.

Play the Japanese learning game suite on k4forge.