4. What is Helix?
"Self-Made" Keyboard
Development by owner of
"Yusha-kobo" (遊舎工房)
1st "Self-Made Keyboard Store" in
Japan
Opened at 2019-01-15
5. Pros of Helix
Split type
Ortholinear
Kailh Choc Switch (low profile)
QMK Firmware
6. What is QMK?
Open Source keyboard
firmware
Defact standard firmware of
Self-Made keyboards
Multiple layers
Macros
Play Audio, OLED Display, lighting
the LED, etc
7. Pros of QMK Firmware
Customize the key layout
freely
Multiple layers
Frequently used key
combination as one key
10. What is Dvorak
layout?
Patented during 1936 by Dr.
August Dvorak
Standard in Linux, macOS,
Windows OS
Probably, I used about 16
years
11. Pros of Dvorak layout
Less finger motion, reduces
errors
compared to the QWERTY
"AOEUI" On the left hand
home position
good compatibility with Roman
input of Japanese
12. Common Japanese
Ipnut Method
Roman character input
most people use
JIS Kana
Use Hiragana keys on JIS keyboard
Some people occasionally use it
14. What is Thumb-Shift
Input method?
Invented by Fujitsu in the late
1970s
On Japanese word processor named
'OASYS'
NiCOLA Layout
15. Pros Thumb-Shift IM
The number of keystrokes is
about 60%
Compared to Roman Charactor
input method
The most accessible 30 keys
on the keyboard
It can represent 90 characters.
23. How to get Team ID
of Kernel Extension
% sudo sqlite3 /var/db/SystemPolicyConfiguration/KextPolicy
sqlite> select team_id, bundle_id
...> from kext_policy
...> where bundle_id like '%Karabiner%';
G43BCU2T37|org.pqrs.driver.Karabiner.VirtualHIDDevice.v060800