CrankGPT – hand powered offline physical AI box
CrankGPT is a fully offline, off-the-grid AI box. Our current demos are variations on voice assistants—turn the crank, say something, get a response—but we’ve generated images (small), made poetry (bad), and written code using the same setup. Just a hand crank, a little computer, and a small stack of speech and language models running locally.
- ▪CrankGPT is a fully offline, off-the-grid AI box.
- ▪Our current demos are variations on voice assistants—turn the crank, say something, get a response—but we’ve generated images (small), made poetry (bad), and written code using the same setup.
- ▪Just a hand crank, a little computer, and a small stack of speech and language models running locally.
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| Original publisher | CrankGPT |
| Canonical URL | https://squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:32:53 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-28T15:27:23.499Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-28T15:27:23.499Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | XISzv3cA3Bln · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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CrankGPT is a fully offline, off-the-grid AI box. Our current demos are variations on voice assistants—turn the crank, say something, get a response—but we’ve generated images (small), made poetry (bad), and written code using the same setup. There’s no battery or cloud. Just a hand crank, a little computer, and a small stack of speech and language models running locally. Provided the electronics are kept dry and at a reasonable temperature, there’s no reason this thing won’t still work in a hundred years, though you’ll definitely need a fresh SD card.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at CrankGPT.
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