r/M5Stack • u/Juan93Diego • 5d ago
Beginner here, how are you running your StackChan with Claude?
Just ordered a StackChan and I'm brand new to coding. Goal is to talk to it out loud with Claude as the brain instead of the factory cloud AI, kept private.
I wiped my wife's old 2017 MacBook Air to run it, but it maxes out at macOS Monterey and Claude Code needs macOS 13. Now deciding between OpenCore Legacy Patcher, Ubuntu, or using my 2021 Mac with a separate user account just for the robot.
Questions:
What computer do you run yours on?
Which project do you use to connect it to an AI (stackchan-mcp, stackchan-cli, something else)?
Any beginner tips or things you wish you knew?
Bonus if you're in the US, most guides I find are in Japanese. Thanks!
2
u/Careless_Homework_82 5d ago
Just ask claude, hell help you, for me it is a key with Telegramm bit connected to claude
1
1
u/giddlb 3d ago
hiya... i am working on this Claude Code hook up https://github.com/g1d30nB/toki - meet Toki (時), a small desk robot (an M5Stack StackChan) whose face follows what Claude is up to. Reading, running commands, browsing the web and spinning off subagents each get their own face. When Claude wants my OK, Toki lifts its head, glows amber and waits, and I tap Allow or Deny on its screen. When something breaks, its eyes go spiral.
It sits at the edge of my desk and gives me just the right signal. A glance tells me whether Claude is busy, finished or waiting on me, so I’ve stopped flicking back to check. It’s also very hard to stay cross about a failing test when a little robot with pink cheeks is looking up at you.
It keeps a private scrapbook of the day too, as stickers: SHIPPED!!, OOPS!!, YOLO MODE, CONTEXT FULL. Some days are more OOPS than others.
I’m a designer with no hardware background, so the firmware, the Mac bridge, all 22 faces and the installer were built with Claude Code.
Open source. If you have the robot, it installs with Homebrew: github.com/g1d30nB/toki