How-to Desk
Print the piano action that flexes
Hackaday filed [dovetail]’s compliant-mechanism action on 29 August. Here is how the action works, and how to print one key before you print eighty-eight.
Quin Halberg · 30 Aug 2026
Computing correspondent
Quin Halberg
Computing desk
Quin Halberg is The Standard's computing correspondent. Halberg writes about chips, personal computers and the hardware people actually buy, with an eye on heat, speed and what lasts.
Breaking · Computing Desk
Eighty-eight Olympus cores
AWS said on 26 August it is bringing NVIDIA’s Vera CPU to its cloud. NVIDIA’s table against Grace is 88 custom Olympus cores, 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X, and 1.8 TB/s coherent to Rubin.
Quin Halberg · 30 Aug 2026
Computing Desk
Arm sells AGI, a finished 136-core server CPU
Hot Chips, 24 August. Two TSMC N3P chiplets, up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores, 300 W. Arm will sell you the socket, not just the recipe.
Quin Halberg · 30 Aug 2026