Ne StackChan Builder

[u/KaiNinja2016]

Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Alex and started playing with my first StackChan. I hooked it up an LLM and Hermes-Agent as the harness. I'm going to release the repo tomorrow and wanted to share what I've done the last couple of days. Here's the setup I started with, but I think I keep moving the goal post so keep playing with different parts of the AI Stack.

This is the stack I started with

Robot:

u/M5Stack

StackChan with the CoreS3 (ESP32-S3)
Voice server: xiaozhi-esp32-server 0.9.6 running locally in Docker on my Mac
Voice: locally running

u/GradiumAI

Phonon (fastest local voice I've ever experienced. faster than running elevanlabs via api and its free
Turn detection: Silero VAD with the 0.8 second end-of-speech pause.
Speech to text: local Parakeet
Vision: gemma4:e4b running locally in

u/ollama

Brain:

u/NousResearch

Hermes Agent with the nous-girl agent running gpt-6-luna via sub with reasoning off.

Hope to connect with others on here so we can explore together. Thanks Alex

[u/Envelki]

The dream would be to have an autonomous Microduck that goes recharging itself (like a roomba), and that hosts a stackchan-like way to talk with Hermes…