Hardware specification — industrial design and Phase-1 build envelope for the free-standing three-plate machine: two mirrored chambers in one anodized column
RH-1 is a free-standing anodized column, Ø460 × 1650 mm, built around three plate assemblies and two mirrored chambers: an open glass build chamber in the upper third, an active storage chamber hidden in the body below it, and between and around them the Phase-1 instrument — Ø410 perforated radiating plates, contrawound toroidal windings, ring-horn acoustic front ends with gyroid volumes, full metrology, and the multi-octave drive stack. Phase-1 capability MEASURED art: multi-octave acoustic holography, field-molded particle placement, levitation matched to material class (induction / electrostatic / acoustic — §6.0), toroidal-pulse positioning, per-layer spectroscopic metrology, chemistry-grade assembly experiments. Operating medium, by operator ruling (R11): normal atmosphere — the 40–300 kHz window a 460 mm chamber supports at single-digit dB per pass; medium conditioning is a roadmap lever, not a precondition. What it does not do: transmutation OPEN — the collar program of the main paper — makes no appearance in this unit and no claim on this spec. The honest tagline: a boundary-control instrument standing on the floor, whose upgrade path is the main paper's ladder — one chamber holds the object, one holds the matter it will become; between them, one plate.
The machine is a cylinder because its work happens between circular boundary plates — plates facing each other is the transporter configuration, and the column is the smallest polite body around a stack of them. The free-standing form follows from the stack (rulings R8–R10): the build chamber is the only open, visible volume; the storage chamber is its hidden mirror twin below, served by the same plate hardware; the middle plate is double-faced — two cap stacks back to back, radiating up into the build and down into storage; and feedstock rides the co-axial bores as a field (R10 — detail in §4). Each plate hologram carries a focusing term, so each facing pair forms a stable open resonator for the beamable bands; the walls are demoted from boundary to instrument — EMC closure, muscle band, high-angle sensing, safety.
lpoh/cad/rh1_freestanding_rev2.blend.| item | value | note |
|---|---|---|
| overall | Ø 460 × 1650 mm | free-standing; footprint fits a 500 mm square; work height = chamber floor at ~1060 |
| shells | 4 mm anodized aluminium extrusions | lower body tube (one piece, 0–1060) + bottom closure + internal storage deck; top band + crown as capped tubes; all walls uniform 4 mm (ruling: extrusion construction, no castings) |
| build chamber | Ø 444 glass × 460 mm | low-iron, 4 mm wall; the only open, visible volume; aperture between plate faces Ø 410 |
| storage chamber | Ø 400 × 385 mm cavity | hidden inside the lower body; mirror twin of the build chamber, served by the deck and middle plates |
| plates | 3 × Ø 410, 12 mm thick, Ø 12 bores | storage deck (up), middle (double-faced), top (down); each: 12 equiangular through-slots + ~380-hole Vogel field + bore collar; carrier rings Ø 409→452 mount them into the shell; bore resized 2026-08-03 (was Ø 130 — see Mechanical Construction §3c) |
| tori | 3 × Ø 290 major, Ø 60 tube | contrawound pairs, two feeds each (R5); hidden under/above their plates; also the ring-horn flare (R3) |
| base section | ~650 mm | feedstock reserve, power, compute — no gas plant (plan A = air, R11) |
| mass | ≈ 50 kg class | shells ~20 kg, plates+carriers ~15 kg, glass ~6.5 kg, tori/windings/electronics balance; floor-standing, no anchoring |
| power | single internal DC drive rail; harvest returns into it | scales with the build, not fixed by it — draw follows aperture area × channel count × duty. RH-1 sits in the few-hundred-watt class on a commodity supply |
| desktop variant | Ø 360 × 560, single chamber | the v0.3 envelope, demoted to bench instantiation; same ratios, no storage twin |
The build chamber (the storage chamber is sealed inside the body and has no door) closes with two nested half-cylinders of low-iron glass. The rear half (Ø 444 mm, fixed) closes the back. The front half (Ø 464 mm — deliberately larger) nests outside the rear half and rides in circular roller tracks: a V-groove ring in the middle-plate carrier and a matching ring under the top band. Rotate the front half 180° and it nests fully behind the rear half — the chamber stands open across its entire front; rotate it back and the volume is sealed. No hinges, no swing radius, one motion.
The rear arc of the build chamber carries an arcade of seven slim vertical columns behind the fixed rear glass (30° spacing across the rear 180°, aligned with plate sector boundaries). Their role under the walls-demoted ruling: high-angle sensing rows and services only — the primary aperture is the plate pair. Each column carries a dense vertical RX strip; with the plate elements transmitting they form a MIMO virtual array — the high-angle coverage the specular-gap audit requires, door in any position. Three of the seven carry the services (feed riser, power, data). Sparse-array honesty: 30° spacing ≫ λ/2, so raw beams have grating lobes — mitigated the standard MIMO way (dense within-column sampling, wideband FMCW, compressed sensing); the rotating front glass adds an aperture-diversity sweep. Plan-B upgrade path: populating the inter-column bays with phononic panels adds auxiliary muscle band and side-boundary drive where an application needs it — built out in Mechanical Construction §4; the free-standing baseline ships without them.
| item | spec |
|---|---|
| track | V-groove rings in the middle-plate carrier and the top-band underside; 6 polymer V-rollers (3+3) on the front glass's bonded end-bands; detents at 0° (sealed) and 180° (open) |
| glass | low-iron laminated glass, 4 mm, half-cylinders; polycarbonate variant for the cost-reduced build |
| seal | conductive fabric-over-foam gasket on both vertical meeting edges + track lips, engaged only at the 0° detent |
| interlock | Hall sensor at the 0° detent gates all drive power above metrology level — high-SPL acoustic (full band) and EM drive are physically impossible with the enclosure open (inherits the lane's acoustic-power safety doctrine) |
| shield / upgrade path | the glass carries a transparent conductive (ITO-class) coating: sealed, the enclosure is a Faraday side-boundary — EMC containment now, and a latent upgrade rung: segmenting that coating into addressable electrodes turns the passive side wall into partial side-boundary drive, the ladder step between two plates and the shell (Architecture §1.2) |
The enclosure is not packaging. Sealed, it completes the controlled boundary (passive today, addressable later); its interlock is the safety case; and its one-motion opening is the entire user ritual: turn the glass, place the cartridge, turn it back, touch begin.
The machine has four physical handles on the build volume; the design never asks one channel to do another's job. Sound is the muscle, microwave is the ears and the axial drive, light is the fingertip and the eyes, the windings are the strong field and the experiment. Doctrine (operator, 2026-07-30): the three circular plate assemblies are the primary aperture for phonons and photons. Each assembly is a dual-carrier coaxial horn — three PZT elements at a common throat, the contrawound torus as ring-radial flare and strong-field source, a graded ceramic gyroid as acoustic library and EM dielectric, one perforated plate as the shared radiating face.
| channel | carries | resolution / precision | speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| acoustic — the three plate assemblies (throat → torus ring-horn → gyroid → perforated face), broadband; side panels plan B | force and momentum: holds, moves, sculpts matter (the only channel with real force-per-watt); facing plate pairs form a stable open resonator (focusing term, R8) | independent features ~λ/2 far-field: 0.6–0.9 mm at the air band's attenuation ceiling (~200–300 kHz), ~0.1 mm in liquid/melt; trap placement is phase/SNR-limited (~µm); sub-λ near the hologram plates | ms (speed of sound) |
| EM microwave — the same plates' spiral-slot grating (coax horn: copper inner cone → gyroid dielectric → 12 slots) | bulk energy by spectral addressing (frequency is the address, chemistry is the mask), helicity, and sensing; topological registers (skyrmion numbers, R13) on the drive states | focusing stays diffraction-limited (cm); positioning ~0.5λ single-aperture via toroidal-pulse signatures (SNR-limited, not λ-limited) | ns |
| optical stem — bore sightline, bidirectional TX/RX port (R2-b) | out: flying-doughnut chords (self-healing, isodiffracting) + photoacoustic writing + energy delivery; back: density-matrix state tomography (purity = roughness data) + composition (OCT / Raman / LIBS) | µm | fast |
| windings — three contrawound torus pairs, two feeds each (R5) | sum mode = strong confined flux: induction levitation/heating and the potential-port experiment OPEN; difference mode = fast ring dipole: toroidal-pulse exciter and the six-circuit traveling-wave bore lift (R10) | n/a | sum: slow/strong · difference: fast/weak |
Two honesty notes that govern everything below. Precision ≠ resolution: feature spacing is wavelength-limited; feature placement is not. And below the capillary length, surface tension finishes what the field molds — the field is the mold-maker, not the polisher.
Levitation is matched to material class, not owned by one channel:
| material | mode | status |
|---|---|---|
| conductive metal (small droplets/melt only) | induction — in-plate bore winding levitates and heats small conductive droplets in one coil; bulk ingot-scale melting dropped from this shared coil 2026-08-03 (bore resized to Ø12 — see §6.0 and Mechanical Construction §3c; an ingot-scale melt stage would need its own independently-sized coil, not specified here) | induction levitation (industrial, small-scale) |
| charged droplet (any material) | electrostatic (ESL) — the plate pair is the electrode geometry; kV bias + active servo (Earnshaw: feedback is mandatory — supplied by the position-servo ruling in §6.1) | lab standard (containerless processing) |
| dielectric / neutral / fine placement | acoustic — traps and near-field holograms | measured (acoustic tweezers) |
| ruling | spec | basis |
|---|---|---|
| channel architecture (rev. 2026-07-22 "carriers separated by surface" → superseded rev 2026-07-30, operator) | the three circular plate assemblies carry both carriers — dual-carrier coaxial horns (§6.0 bullets), scale separation as the diplexer: the sub-λ Vogel mesh reads as solid conductor at GHz while transmitting sound; PZT transduction is dead at GHz while the slots don't radiate at MHz. No per-site diplexer part — the physics is the diplexer. Side paneling = plan B (auxiliary muscle/coverage). The 07-22 rationale (no diplexer hardware, optimal geometry per carrier) survives intact; its letter (carriers on different surfaces) does not | one geometry, bands separated by mechanism; the carriers overlap where it matters — in the build volume, on the workpiece — and now on the plate. Detail: Mechanical Construction §3–§3b |
| element specialization | per assembly: 3 PZT throat elements (acoustic, OAM by phasing) + contrawound winding pair (strong field + pulse exciter) + printed slot grating (EM launch) — each element still rides one band on one line; the assembly is dual-carrier, the elements are not | keeps every element at its physics optimum while sharing one aperture |
| conical inductors | still used as broadband chokes / matching in the drivers (no longer a per-site diplexer role — carriers are surface-separated) | standard broadband part |
| radiator geometry | self-similar (angle-defined) throughout: printed spirals (EM), tapered/graded structures (acoustic); no single-resonance radiators in the signal path | Bode–Fano/Chu budget — bandwidth from geometry, not resonance (science: Replicator §6.3.3) |
| toroidal-pulse launch | the plate's EM face is an equiangular-spiral slot grating (r(φ)=r₀ecot α·φ) with a radial ring feed at the bore rim — a flattened coaxial horn. It launches single-cycle, space-time-nonseparable toroidal and toroidal-helical pulses; the TE/TM mix α, relative phase β, and handedness are runtime drive parameters (the chord alphabet gains a helicity axis). Mirror-imaged plates give opposite intrinsic handedness; counter-drive covers twist, cancellation, and the two-plate CPA verb | MEASURED art: Wang et al., Commun. Phys. 7:356 (2024); Shi et al., Commun. Phys. (2026, in press) |
| position servo | toroidal-pulse signature positioning: space-time nonseparability gives every chamber point a unique frequency–polarization chord; matched against a pre-computed dictionary (the .pattern chord machinery) one aperture tracks position to ~0.5λ, SNR-limited — the ns-class feedback signal that stabilizes ESL, acoustic traps, and melt shaping | MEASURED: 97% of cases <0.5λ, single antenna (Wang et al. 2024) |
| levitation by material class | per the §6.0 table: small conductive droplets → in-plate induction winding (bulk ingot-scale melting dropped 2026-08-03 — own coil, not this shared one); charged droplet (any) → plate-pair ESL, kV bias + position-servo feedback; dielectric/neutral/fine → acoustic traps + near-field holograms. No channel is asked to levitate outside its class | induction levitation (industrial, small-scale), ESL (lab standard), acoustic tweezers (measured) |
| matching | graded sub-wavelength impedance ramps at every carrier boundary; active (non-Foster) matching permitted where the power electronics allows | coherent energy must never thermalize uninstructed |
| assembly mechanism | acoustic parameters (frequency, pressure amplitude, cavitation regime) are treated as chemical process knobs in the build volume | sonochemistry — established measured field |
| mold options | three grades: passive printed acoustic hologram plate (object-specific, cheapest — a legitimate product increment) → phased plate (RH-1 baseline) → full metamaterial surface (the KOSMOS optimum) | Melde et al. 2016; kosmos.html §4 |
| in-volume metrology | sonoluminescence monitoring: bubble-collapse light localizes acoustic field concentration in the build fluid — a free optical reporter, imaged through the axial sightline | measured phenomenon; zero added hardware beyond the crown camera |
| transport phases | lowest-rung rule: powder or melt/droplets for bulk, droplets fed up the Ø12 bore (~100 µm voxels ⇒ ~10⁸ placements per 0.25 kg object); vapor/ion reserved for the atomic finishing pass (surface ≈ 10¹⁸ atoms) and m/q sorting — never for bulk. Revised 2026-08-03: bulk ingot-to-droplet induction melting via a shared "ingot bay beneath the deck" is dropped as a baseline claim (it does not survive against the Ø12 bore — see Mechanical Construction §3c); where pre-melted droplet/powder feedstock comes from is now OPEN — a dedicated, independently-sized melting stage is a roadmap item, not specified here | liquid-metal jetting, EBPVD — industrial art; energy ladder ≈ 0 / 1 / 8 / 22 MJ/kg (Fe) |
| melt sculpting mode | continuous field-shaped melt (holographic electromagnetic casting): native at ≥100 µm features (capillary limit: mm ≈ 0.1 T, 100 µm ≈ 0.3 T local modulation); requires active Rayleigh–Plateau stabilization via the listen-loop; finer detail deferred to solidified-state ion finishing | EM casting + cold-crucible shaping = industrial; jet stabilization = published art |
| cooling harvest | TPV ring in the harvest layer: melt-temperature glow (~0.6 MW/m²) converted at ~40% — recovers ≈⅓ of melt energy per object; field-directed solidification programs microstructure (columnar / single-crystal / quench-amorphous) | thermophotovoltaics ~40% (MIT 2022); directional solidification = turbine-blade art |
| transducer roadmap | Phase-1: surface-separated single-crystal drivers (above) → integrated polaritonic element: piezo/multiferroic cavity where one drive addresses the photon-ish or phonon-ish branch of a hybrid dispersion (the mixing angle does the carrier split in one material, re-uniting the carriers at a site where wanted); chiral branch-selection by drive handedness remains hypothesis — the chiral launch side is now measured (toroidal-pulse row) | phonon-polaritons + GHz piezo filters = commodity physics; BiFeO₃-class multiferroics; science: Replicator §6.3.3 |
| feed transport | ionized feed electrostatically accelerated (~keV class): base-store → build-point transit ≈ 5 µs — perceptually instantaneous; neutral mesoscale feed by acoustic tractor paths; all transport through the bore and guided channels (no through-wall claims) | electrostatic acceleration + acoustic tractor beams = measured art; science §6.8 "matter stream" |
| software | the Field Compiler (RSW-1): slicer whose output is boundary field states (.fcode frames: per-channel per-band complex drive + verb + schedule + RX gates); emulator API = hardware API (backend swap); WebGPU/WGSL from scratch, MLX validation twin | architecture: replicator_field_compiler.html; roadmap v0–v4 therein |
| product staging | scanner-first: the first RH-1 build (power below ADD/REMOVE thresholds) ships as a complete desktop 3D scanner, mW-class. Primary aperture = the arcade MIMO array (§5.05, door in any position) + toroidal-pulse positioning; the front glass adds aperture diversity. No passive camera — appearance is computed from composition: v0.5a = acoustic (exterior + eigenmode fingerprint) + active optical (laser/OCT to 1–10 µm); v0.5b = + EM suite (cavity-perturbation ε, dielectric spectroscopy, eddy σ/µ) + Raman/hyperspectral (gated LIBS optional). Copy loop = scan → pattern → viewport → (build, when powered); details compiler §8.1b | kosmos.html scan mode (MIMO FMCW + SAR); compiler §8; zero added hardware |
This revision folds session rulings R1–R13 (full text, register
tags, and derivations in REPLICATOR_CAP_STACK_RULINGS_2026-07-30.md)
into the body above: R3–R5 in the §6.0 assembly bullets, R8 in §2 and
§5.05, R9–R10 in §2 and §4, R11 in §1 and §3, R2-b and R13 in the §6.0
channel table. The plate-face detail (Fibonacci 21×34 crossed-spiral
micro-horn mesh, chirality doctrine) and the horn/gyroid build recipe live
in Mechanical
Construction §3–§3b; the optical stem's full specification lives in
the field compiler §17.7.
| assembly | content | tier |
|---|---|---|
| plate assembly ×3 | perforated Ø410 plate (12 slots + Vogel mesh + collar) · ceramic gyroid horn · copper inner cone · contrawound torus Ø290 (2 feeds) · 3 PZT throat elements · carrier ring | commodity + published art; ceramic print + CNC |
| shells | 4 mm anodized extrusions: lower body tube + bottom closure + storage deck, top band, crown cap | ordinary fabrication |
| enclosure | 2 glass half-cylinders (Ø444 fixed / Ø464 rotating), track rings, rollers, gasket, interlock | ordinary mechanism engineering |
| arcade | 7 RX/service columns behind the rear glass (plan-B panel bays empty in baseline) | commodity |
| base | UI, supply, router, pumps, feedstock reserve, cartridge circle | commodity |
| metrology | optical stem (bidirectional port §6.0) + plate TX→RX self-calibration + storage-chamber QC | commodity |
| reclaim mode | storage chamber reversed (§4) | second increment |
| transmuter stage | — | OPEN — not in this product; see main paper §5–§8 |
Canonical source model: lpoh/cad/rh1_freestanding_rev2.blend
(the old desktop model is archived inside it as RH1_v1_OLD).
Canonical numbers: Ø460×1650 body; build chamber glass Ø444×460 at
1060–1520; plates Ø410×12 with Ø12 bores (resized 2026-08-03, was Ø130 —
see Mechanical Construction §3c) at 655 (deck), 1048–1060
(middle), 1520–1532 (top); tori Ø290 major / Ø60 tube at 600, 998, 1575;
gyroid horn cones throat Ø36 → Ø404 (model cells enlarged ~10× for
legibility; production cells 2–5 mm); 4 mm walls everywhere. Finishes:
shells in champagne anodized aluminium (satin, faint brushed
grain); plate faces dark machined metal (let the slots and hole-field
show — they are the product's face); ceramic gyroid warm bone; contrawound
windings two-tone copper/bronze (the signature detail — show them in any
cutaway); low-iron glass with a just-visible tint; LED ring warm white.
The hero shots are (a) the closed column — one luminous chamber in a
quiet monolith — and (b) the quarter section cut (live boolean in the
model, R2_SectionCutter): shells 4 mm thin, storage rows,
three tori, gyroid horns. The machine should read as an instrument, not
an appliance: the closest kin are a watchmaker's bell jar, a telescope
pier, and a transporter pad — in that order of restraint.