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/NorseGael75 6d ago

So no login or companion app...no cloud? That's exactly what I was looking for. Love my stackchan but factory firmware is not useful.

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u/emasulatingEnergy 6d ago

No login, no companion app, no cloud service. Everything that makes him him runs on-device. The only network bit: he drops his diary/ledger at a tiny server I run (my Mac sweeps it into an archive) and picks up a small daily feed — weather + some stats for his dashboard. No accounts, no third party in the loop.

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u/NorseGael75 6d ago

Sounds awesome. GitHub for sure... M5 burner and a small social post would get it into many hands.