› Machines

How does it know?

Everyday machines you can press. Each one shows what it senses, the rule it follows and what it does, then lets you fool it. A machine only knows what its sensor tells it.

The machines

Night-light · senses lightHow does it know it's dark?Fool it: Cover its eye in daylight, or shine a flashlight on it at night.Press it →

Draw your own.

The Hi, Bot Machines skill teaches Claude to draw any everyday machine this way, in this style, as one HTML file that works offline. Paste this in a terminal, restart Claude Code, then ask for a machine.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hibot-machines && curl -fsSL https://hibot.space/machines/SKILL.md -o ~/.claude/skills/hibot-machines/SKILL.md

Try: “a fridge light that knows when the door opens. Make it a Hi, Bot machine.”

Put one on your site.

Any machine can sit inside another page. It makes no network requests and collects nothing.

<iframe src="https://hibot.space/machines/night-light.html" title="Night-light · Hi, Bot Machines" width="100%" height="820" style="border:0" loading="lazy"></iframe>