Notes of Rasmus Johanson

SAMD21 M0-Mini & CircuitPython

24 Feb, 2021

SAMD21 M0-Mini is a cheap clone of Arduino M0-mini sold under various names and sellers. RobotDyn offers the same board with and without CircuitPython support. Accidentally I ordered units without one and the following is how to get UF2 bootloader and CircuitPython working on these devices. If you want to skip the following, make sure you order a board with CircuitPython. It will cost you a few more bucks, RobotDyn offers both.

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i3 transparent placeholder

20 Aug, 2020

i3 does have i3 open command to open blank/empty container but at least for me it draws weird container borders on desktop and in general is undocumented and unreliable.

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Tasmotized Sonoff IFan03 and HASS

06 Jul, 2020

Sonoff IFan03 is a cheap little device for controlling a ceiling fan that you can manage over WiFi or 433MHz radio. Thankfully, it's very easy to flash open source Tasmota on it.

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i3, XF86 multimedia keys and xdotool

16 Apr, 2018

Chromium (and Google Chrome) does not let you change the default keyboard shortcuts. Because they decided to remove backspace as a go back in history because it was confusing, the only shortcut left to navigate back is Alt+Right.

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