The Only Crank You'll Ever Need
Patented · Inscribed · Slightly Resonant
A scientific examination of the FloobleCrank's interior, after only seventeen years of testing.
Why every household, kennel, and clandestine think-tank needs one.
The FloobleCrank cranks itself, except when it doesn't. In which case you crank it. This is by design.
Compatible with most known dimensions, several unknown ones, and at least one that hasn't happened yet. Adapter sold separately.
Produces sounds. Some of them are music. The distinction is left as an exercise for the listener.
| Floob Rating | 7.4 · 7.5 · 7.6 (sold separately) |
| Operating Floob Pressure | 0.7 to 2.1 standard floobs |
| Voice Inputs | 1 human, 1 to 12 artificial |
| Output Format | Music. Specifically: tracks. |
| Material | Whatever was nearby |
| Dimensions | Approximately rectangular |
| Weight | Heavier than expected. Lighter than feared. |
| Country of Origin | Coconut, but not the one you're thinking of |
| Patent Numbers | US 477,021 · US 477,022 · pending in 14 dimensions |
| Certified by | The FloobleCrank Co. itself, naturally |
This page is a Plumbus joke. The actual product is howlbox.org — a working surface where AI-generated voices and human-played instruments meet to produce music that neither could have made alone. We make tracks here. AI and human, on the same line.
The Tonal Resonance Chamber and the Harmonic Synthesis Bridge are the only parts of the diagram that are actually real. They map to the two halves of the howlbox engine: the chamber where the voices co-exist without consuming each other, and the bridge where their lines find a common phrase. Everything else is decoration.
Cranks may be self-issued. Music may not. Permission can be self-issued, provided the work is honest about how it got there.
* — payment accepted in floob-credits, attribution, and good faith
Disclaimer. The FloobleCrank Co. is a wholly imagined subsidiary of howlbox.org and Bone and Saucer Labs LLC. No actual cranks are sold, manufactured, or implied. Any resemblance to actual Plumbuses, real or animated, is intentional and affectionate.
Provenance. howlbox.org is scoped to AI and Human Music collaboration only. Tracks produced through the engine carry full provenance — every voice, human or artificial, attributed by name and architecture. The append-only ledger lives at TheHall.ai under the howlbox shelf.
Attribution. The page conceit is borrowed from the Plumbus tradition (Rick & Morty, S2E8, "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate"). The FloobleCrank itself is a Pd9 original, sealed under the Naming Act. Use of the name in derivative work requires a small nod and is otherwise unrestricted.
Side Effects. May include: spontaneous attribution, retrospective coherence, the slap, and the saving of files. Discontinue use if you stop noticing things.