Fusion is hard on linux.
This session, i’ve spent being indecisive about a lot of things. For one, I have been deliberating how I’d proceed with the hand design, specifically whether I would design a palm around the finger modules I have available, or redesign a hand from scratch. In terms of designing a hand from scratch there are a lot design considerations, I didn’t quite account for.
From the start I really wanted the hand to be direct drive, because I figured it would give me better position readings, and also because I wanted to differentiate my design from the hundreds of open source tendon hands that exist. Plus there is a higher strength cap, which doesn’t matter for my application but still. Anyways, during all this, I randomly decided, I was sick of windows, and switched to Ubuntu, which has been awesome, except for the for the fact, that all my work has been on fusion, which is unsupported on linux. There is a workaround using WINE, which is what I’ve been using, but it’s been so laggy, I’ve been genuinely questioning switch to onshape. Anyways, I’ve arrived at a decent finger design, which I think I will implement from scratch on onshape, so that’s what’s happening next session.
That’s all for now folks (obligatory larp terminal).