Squeez Labs

Squeez Labs demonstrated CrankGPT, a fully offline, hand-cranked AI voice assistant built on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB RAM and a 20W generator, running local LLMs via llama.cpp. The device boots in 30…

Katrin Tomanek and Alex Kauffmann built CrankGPT, a hand-cranked, fully offline AI box that serves as both a product satire and a serious edge computing benchmark. The device uses a Raspberry Pi 5, a …

Squeez Labs released CrankGPT, a fully offline voice assistant powered by a hand crank and running on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM, according to the project website. The prototype uses a custom c…