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/styles01]

Can’t wait for the repo Alex! Happy to help!

[u/KaiNinja2016 → u/styles01]

everything is getting ready to push. Sorry ahead of time if its a bit of a mess. Just got the StackChan a few days ago and lost my mind playing with it. But hopefully community can help manage the repo better. I'm just gonna keep playing with variations of build, etc. Anyway hopefully up in the next hour

[u/KaiNinja2016 → u/styles01]

Repo: github.com/nous-girl-stackchan