Description
Want to see how a four-stroke engine really fits together, or how landing gear folds away? Textbooks give you cutaway diagrams, videos make you ride along, and going back to one part means dragging a scrubber. teardown is a Claude Code skill: ask in plain words how something works and it builds a 3D simulator you can take apart.
The result is one fully offline HTML page. The machine runs in the middle, the panels around it read live numbers, a button lights up the part doing the work, and when nobody touches it the page tours itself.
One sentence to a simulator: Ask for a 4-stroke motorcycle engine or how a mechanical watch keeps time, and Claude builds the whole machine from the skill's rules, no three.js work on your side.
Panels with real numbers: The V8 example shows chamber pressure, valve timing curves, an indicator diagram and the firing order, and they move as you change engine speed.
Cut it open: Glass, section and solid cutaways, plus callouts, arrows and exploded views, so you can isolate any single part.
Three finished machines: A V8, the Cessna 337 landing gear and a Strandbeest, each bundled into a single HTML file with node sims/build.mjs.
Record it: Render the tour frame by frame to a 60 fps mp4 with procedural sound, which needs ffmpeg and Python 3.
Install: npx skills add elvarofficial/teardown -g -a claude-code, then install the dependencies and Chromium once in the folder. Node.js 20 or newer.
The result is one fully offline HTML page. The machine runs in the middle, the panels around it read live numbers, a button lights up the part doing the work, and when nobody touches it the page tours itself.
Features
One sentence to a simulator: Ask for a 4-stroke motorcycle engine or how a mechanical watch keeps time, and Claude builds the whole machine from the skill's rules, no three.js work on your side.
Panels with real numbers: The V8 example shows chamber pressure, valve timing curves, an indicator diagram and the firing order, and they move as you change engine speed.
Cut it open: Glass, section and solid cutaways, plus callouts, arrows and exploded views, so you can isolate any single part.
Three finished machines: A V8, the Cessna 337 landing gear and a Strandbeest, each bundled into a single HTML file with node sims/build.mjs.
Record it: Render the tour frame by frame to a 60 fps mp4 with procedural sound, which needs ffmpeg and Python 3.
Install: npx skills add elvarofficial/teardown -g -a claude-code, then install the dependencies and Chromium once in the folder. Node.js 20 or newer.
