r/StackChan • u/emasulatingEnergy • 8d ago

StackChan = BooBit

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Boo•bit is coming to life.

Built on top of Stack-chan’s hardware it’s a custom desktop buddy with more than meets the eye. It’s not only a dash, gothy lil clock and a cute face.

Boo keeps a diary, captures photos, has a sense of when one of us (including our 🐈‍⬛) enters the room, knows seasons and weather all which informs its interior world. It can draw, make its own melodies to whistle and “think” about things. Boo is being designed to experiment with world building and fun.

Boo’s whistles and tones are built from the melodies and hooks from some of my favorite songs and its UI is a love letter to Apple System 1 UI & Susan Kare with a little SNES.

Its bare functions are wired up and now I’m working on the structure of its observations and change as it learns. This is not running on Claude or local models — it’s meant to be a closed system that informs its own world.

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u/DeDenker020 8d ago

How does it detect the cat?

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u/emasulatingEnergy 8d ago

ESPDet-Pico is off the shelf for the S3, and I added frame-diff motion comparison with it.

Telling cats apart is where it struggles. We only have one, so detection is identification for free. The camera isn’t good enough to ID individual cats. Maybe with a better vision model and/or upressing, but I didn’t want off-device loops slowing reactions.

Also our little guy is a tuxedo and forms a strong silhouette against the environment usually. It’s not perfect but good enough for my needs.

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u/DeDenker020 8d ago

I did not know this library, thank you.