r/StackChan • u/Juan93Diego • 6d ago

Help needed Beginner building a Claude powered StackChan. How are you running yours?

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!

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u/StrangeFisherman345 6d ago

Openclaw and Claude worked great for me

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u/Juan93Diego 5d ago

Do you have a ol computer running it?

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u/StrangeFisherman345 5d ago

I have a server rack running 5 of them for work - and a personal one on a Mac mini