AI Hardware AI Tools

CrankGPT is a fully offline voice assistant built on a hand-crank-powered Raspberry Pi setup. The page explains the hardware stack, local speech recognition, on-device LLMs, text-to-speech, power smoothing, and latency measurements for running the system without cloud dependency.

A live demo and write-up showing a 3.16M-parameter INT4 transformer running entirely in on-chip memory on a Xilinx Kria KV260 FPGA, with measured token rates and hardware details.

A blog post documenting an open-source, under-$40 take on OpenAI’s Codex Micro, built as an AI-assisted PCB routing and keyboard/macropad project.