CrankGPT looks like a joke website. The hand-cranked AI inside it is real (crankgpt.com)
A 20W emergency hand-crank charger feeds a Pi 5 through a custom capacitor board that buffers about 20 seconds of power. A 350M model hits ~49 tokens/sec; idle draw is 4W, and an answer-plus-speech burst spikes toward 5A.
You can feel the inference load in your wrist: when the model and text-to-speech run together, the crank physically stiffens. Half the thread wanted to buy one; the other half pictured humans on hamster wheels for the AI overlords.
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