# CrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse

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> Published: 2026-06-16 12:03:42+00:00

[CrankGPT](https://squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/) is a fully offline AI box that you power by turning a crank. There's no battery and no internet connection: just a single-board computer (Raspberry or Orange Pi) that runs speech recognition, a small language model, and text-to-speech locally. Crank, speak, and get a spoken answer back. — [Read the rest ](https://boingboing.net/2026/06/16/crankgpt-is-an-offline-ai-box-for-the-apocalypse.html)

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