{"id":466,"date":"2026-06-18T14:12:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:12:38","slug":"crankgpt-is-a-hand-powered-chatbot-to-guide-you-through-the-post-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"CrankGPT Is a Hand-Powered Chatbot to Guide You Through the Post-Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The apocalypse will be a pain in the ass for any number of possible reasons. The giant robot dinosaurs! The constant 1950s music blaring from mysteriously functional radios! The possibility of ending up as livestock in a terrifying cannibal basement and wondering why you didn\u2019t read <em>The Road<\/em> more closely. But clearly, the absolute <em>worst<\/em> part of it will be not having ChatGPT to tell you what to do anymore. How is one to live without a weird internet parrot whispering sweet nothings in one\u2019s ear all day long??<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=464\">Jeff Bezos Called Washington Post His Worst Investment and Staff He Laid Off \u2018Terrible\u2019 People<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, never fear, because one plucky inventor has already foreseen the disaster that an LLM-less post-apocalypse would present, and they\u2019ve planned for exactly that eventuality. Behold: CrankGPT!<\/p>\n<div><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HSapdLYpmWY?feature=oembed\" title=\"CrankGPT\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>From the name, you might think that this is just ChatGPT with a built-in suite of antivaxx prompts, but no! This is an LLM for a grid-less future: a self-contained, battery-less box that uses an old-style hand crank for power. The box contains a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM, an audio input\/output card, and a 20W hand-cranked generator.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>CrankGPT is the work of the two-person company SqueezLabs, whose website describes its remit as \u201cmaking AI smaller, cheaper, and faster so you can run it anywhere.\u201d Oh happy day!\u00a0<span>According to the device\u2019s\u00a0website, the generator connects to a capacitor board that the duo designed themselves; the board ensures that the voltage supplied<\/span>\u00a0to the Raspberry Pi remains steady. One interesting wrinkle is that \u201cyou can feel [the power load] through the crank: when LLM inference and speech synthesis run together, the crank gets a lot harder to turn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=462\">Anthropic Employees and Industry Experts Allege Trump\u2019s Model Meddling is Targeted and Unreasonable<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The LLM itself can be one of several alternatives: SqueezLabs recommends \u201csmall Liquid AI LFM2 variants (e.g., 350M or 1.2B), along with Gemma 3 in its 1B form.\u201d The machine takes voice input through its audio card, converts the speech to text via a custom voice agent written by the designers, and then outputs the LLM\u2019s response into text-to-speech software Piper.<\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness, this is an interesting proof of concept for running demanding software on a relatively small energy budget, and also a demonstration that LLMs don\u2019t <em>have<\/em> to hoover up vast amounts of power to function. As the designers explain, \u201cIt offended our European small-practical-car sensibilities to see people around us throwing kilowatts and thousands of tokens at tasks small models could accomplish just as well as huge ones, for a fraction of the cost and energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately, with Silicon Valley at the wheel, it doesn\u2019t look like the supersize-me philosophy that characterizes LLM development at the moment is going anywhere anytime soon. But when the bombs fall, it\u2019ll be the small-practical-car types who have the last laugh. Well, until the neck-wider-than-head crew arrives with their AR-15s, anyway. ChatGPT, what\u2019s for dinner? \u2026 Me, you say? 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