- This is the big brain keyboard
that requires over 9,000 IQ to use.
It has a hidden feature that makes it different
from all the rest.
This thing can be built backwards and forwards.
Okay, this is the box, says Tenet 70,
something's upside down for some reason.
(upbeat music)
I wonder what plate they gave me.
Wait, I need a fancy knife.
I have this!
My karambit knife.
Beautiful knife.
Ha ha.
It cuts paper.
(paper sliding)
Part one of plate looks poly-carb, lots of flex.
Part two of plate, mini plate for the side and PCB
which I did not test beforehand
because it has daughter-boards.
So if it doesn't work, then it doesn't work.
If it does, we're lucky.
Mini plate, there's so many places
for ribbon cables everywhere and it's hot swap, da da!
We don't have to solder today.
And the plate is quite a pretty plate,
and a bunch of tools, plastic tweezers.
I'm pretty sure I have a billion tweezers by now.
I don't need more, but hey,
you get backups for backups for backups.
Components. I'm just gonna leave that in the bag.
Gaskets and ribbon cables,
things that shouldn't be touched and screws and more screws.
So many screws.
Everything's just gonna go there.
Be safe.
Multiple Allen keys, three
of these bad boys that won't go there.
And finally, the moments we've been waiting for,
that beautiful case.
(plastic sheet sliding)
Ooooooo!
Thick foam.
It can go over there too.
Then the piece on the bottom.
Lots of foam everywhere, and Ruben cables,
hence why I did not test the PCB,
and a beautiful brass weight.
It makes it extra heavy.
Cool! Wanna get started?
I have everything ready to build.
I've got my switches, my key caps, all the supplies,
all that's left
is to turn on the build guide and hopefully pray
for the best because this is gonna be harder
than probably anything I've ever built before.
So already it says that it's a complex keyboard kit.
And knowing me,
I've never built a complex keyboard in my life.
I've built a lot of keyboards, no complex ones.
This, it requires not only intuition
but also some thinking, well (beep) thinking.
I don't know if I can do any thinking.
So I'm going to follow the guide as best as I can.
There's a reason it's called the Tenet.
Okay.
It looks like this, the completely reversible build.
And instead of building it the normal way
where you got your keys here and your air keys there,
I'm gonna be building it the abnormal way,
the palindrome way, the South Pole way.
Is it useful?
I don't know, but I'm gonna do it anyways because I can.
And when you can, you will.
So first things first un-assembling the case,
which means going in from the bottom, that's right.
You heard that right.
Have to look for all these special bits.
Find some that fit these holes on the back.
So, interesting story about this keyboard
it's called the Tenet, and I kept wondering
why it's called the Tenet, like Tenet.
What does that mean?
I kept thinking about it
and I was like, wait, Tenet, palindrome.
It spells the same way back and forth.
Therefore is this keyboard reversible?
And then I looked it up,
turns out it is and turns out that is the reason
why they named it that.
So big brain me.
Yeah, big brain me, figuring it out all by myself.
So brass weight here is super heavy
and it says Tenet.
So it's like both ways.
It reads Tenet, whether it's this way or this way.
All the screws are out, should come right off.
Very pretty case.
I really like the off-white color.
So what now?
Step number two, gaskets.
(beep)
So many gaskets, different size-gaskets, gaskets
on the bottom and the top, gaskets everywhere.
There are like a billion gaskets of various different kinds.
We've got straight gaskets, thick gaskets,
square gaskets, round gaskets and eight.
Think those are feet.
So that's why they provided these.
Guess I'll be using them after all.
It can be tricky.
So you gotta be careful not to stretch the gaskets.
Let's use the tweezers.
Ooh, careful.
I'm literally shaking one gasket complete.
(bright music)
Okay.
So I've got all these.
There's a few more.
There's like a ton more gaskets.
I wanted to talk about some things.
So you may be wondering,
on the case here it this 60% plus 10%.
There's not TKL it's weirder than that.
That's why when you saw the PCBs, you had a 60% keyboard
and then you have an extra cluster
of arrow keys and navigational keys.
There's no F row, which makes this keyboard an abomination.
It's different than anything I've ever built.
Probably one of the weirdest keyboard layouts
that I've ever built.
I've only built pretty average things.
Yeah, now for the big brain part, it's aligned like this
but I wanna flip it.
So I'm wondering if I need to flip the weights.
I think I'm just gonna go ahead
and flip the weights while I have it open.
And I pray that that is the right decision.
The weight looks to be easily removable.
Take out all these mini screws.
Screws are off.
Oh, comes right off.
And I'm assuming you just...
Oh, what the, what is that?
I'm assuming you just flip it.
This piece is completely symmetrical.
This piece is not symmetrical.
There we go.
Whatever that is,
I'm gonna put the screws back in.
Whatever I did there it works.
I think I did it right,
now I just need to flip everything.
It's very fancy.
You can check it out on the website,
link down below if you want.
Just gotta do my best to build it.
Okay.
I've installed a ton of gaskets.
I could test the OLED screen.
There is an OLED screen.
It's very fancy.
It can either tell time,
tell you about the specs of your PC
or you can do custom texts.
There is software.
You do custom texts on it to make it fancy
according to your liking, this only gets tougher.
So I wanna unscrew it and put it on this bad boy.
Alright, what if I don't wanna test it?
I'm just gonna leave this.
I'm gonna work on the actual keyboard stuff,
and what that really means is stabilizers.
I'll do split shift.
I like split shift.
That way less stabilizers, less stabilizers equal better.
So the plan for stabilizers is to use these,
a Glorious GSV2 glorious stabilizers
with transparent housings.
It says compatible GMMK Pro and GMMK Two,
but you know it's compatible
with mechanical keyboards in general.
So in terms of stabilizers,
I'm gonna do it as simple as possible.
You don't need holy mod.
You don't need EPC mod.
You just need lube.
Stabilizers are done, time to put it on the PCB.
I'm gonna go speed-run these stabilizers,
put them all in first like that,
and then just go, it'll be good to go.
Okay.
Stabilizers are done.
That was pretty much like the only easy part about this.
Now everything's difficult and components part two.
Oh, okay.
One cable goes from here directional.
Right?
One goes over to this.
That barely fit.
That is in.
And then the ribbon cable meta key.
Okay.
Now I think I just connect it, that just falls right off.
Okay.
I want whatever, whatever you put like all this brown stuff
in their, how is that possible?
You have to use force.
That's the secret after countless tries
of trying to install ribbon cable delicately,
I used force and successfully put it in.
Force is the secret, not all the time, be careful.
Yeah, basically what they want me to do is test everything,
and to do that, I have to connect everything.
I say this ribbon cable is very small ribbon cable,
and I put it in here.
Oh, it goes in.
Like so, okay.
Okay, there we go.
Now I turn it on.
Moment of truth.
Just plug it in.
Hopefully everything works.
If not, I installed ribbon cables wrong or something.
A complex build for a reason.
Ooh, it says switch and click on it.
That's awesome.
Look at that.
Oh, that was such a stressful moment.
Oh my God.
We're gonna move on now.
I am so happy. That is the definition of stress.
There are no other things
that can be more stressful than that.
Moving on to good stuff.
It's called standoffs.
Everything's in cute, nice little bags.
Our standoffs go in between PCB and plate,
but I'm also going to be using the silicone little pieces.
So standoffs time,
it doesn't tell you where to put the standoffs.
So I'm just assuming if I see a hole
a standoff will go there.
There's a lot of things that you just have to be like, oh,
I know what that is, I've seen that before.
So I guess that's what they mean
by the intuition part of it.
But experience helps too.
I wonder if my mini one has standoffs too.
Yes.
Mini one has four standoffs.
That's a lot.
Now that I've gotten the technology to work,
I feel good about it.
This is the first keyboard I've built
where there's external lights.
There's ribbon cables.
There's complicated stuff everywhere.
Feel good.
Okay.
So I got that.
Now you do these.
So you wanna be able to see
through the gap so that you can feed your cable
through it when you install your thingumajig and this,
and then I'm guessing this will go through the hole.
Okay?
What now?
Okay, I think I'm doing it right.
Honestly, I'm just making this stuff up.
I don't know.
The switches we'll be using today are carrot switches.
They look abnormally like tangerines, but trust me,
they are carrot switches.
They're pre switches from Keebsforall,
shout out to them for sending me these awesome switches.
Even get to get a closeup picture of them.
Ooh, carrot switches.
(switch clicking)
And these are made by Texie.
Very smooth.
And they're going in.
So I found my missing standoff.
It's too late.
So I just won't be using that, that's unfortunate.
This goes on.
Like so.
Part one of the ribbon cable series, again
that one was easy now for the tough part.
Appealed it.
And then you have to install it. I did it in my hands.
So now I'm gonna try it again in the keyboard.
Yep. It'll just be fruitless.
That's the only way.
Okay. You want this thingumajig.
Then somehow connect it.
That's not too bad.
Then you close it.
Then you pray that it closes properly.
Oh, then you house stick.
Make sure there's feet.
Oh, you do need a lot of feet.
Six feet to be exact.
Hey, no more feet now I plug it in.
Pray it works.
It works.
And the screen looks pretty good.
Oh, the rest is just put on key caps.
For key caps today,
I will be using GMK serenity
from Drop. I've never used this before
but thank you to Drop for sending it over.
And I will see how it looks on the beautiful white case.
Just gonna go savage on it.
No knives.
No nothing.
Just fingernails.
G M K serenity.
Beautiful. I meant to install it the other way.
How come it ended up being the normal way when
I tried so hard to make it the other way?
What, how did that happen?
And that's it, let's test it.
Oh wow.
That's cool.
You can change your screen with these buttons.
So everything works.
Yeah. This was, this was one
of the most difficult builds I've ever done.
Even without the screw shirt, the screen, you know
it moves a bit, but
at least it works better than it not working.
And it's really cool.
It's sort of, it's sort of gimmicky, but cool.
It's cool.
And it's got underglow you can change up the RGB.
There is software that you can use.
Overall, I like the aesthetic of it.
It looks really nice.
I did encounter a lot of problems
which I don't know if someone more advanced
in keyboard building than me would encounter, like the
I only got four screws in out of eight.
These kept falling out.
And then I guess I installed my gaskets weirdly
but it's like coming out of the case a bunch.
It's like not flush in there.
So I, I am assuming that's user error on my part.
And then I wasn't able to get the screws in there
and I forgot to stand off, but it, it works.
It looks nice.
And I really tried hard to get this side on the other side
but it didn't work that way.
So I'm confused, but we will, we'll give it a listen.
(typing)
Sounds great.
Different than the
the poppy kinda stuff that I've been seeing
on keyboard slightly.
I think it looks great.
I think it sounds great.
It is a little bit wonky that there was no function row.
It's sort of nice.
I really wish I was able to build it the other way.
Wanted to build it like this so
that I could have like this and then be like,
"Ooh, arrows, yeah!"
Plus that would be so convenient for gaming.
Just ah, yeah, yeah. Gamer.
But yeah, I'm, I'm not taking it apart.
No way in
(beep)
So if you are interested in picking one up,
it is in group buy right now.
Linked down below, it won't be
in group buy for a very long time and pricing.
That's right.
We forgot to talk about pricing.
This version with the brass weight
on the back will be somewhere
between $520 and five $550 for everything
except the switches, key caps and stabilizers.
And then if you do wanna learn more
about the Tenet, join the discord, the product page
I'll link the product page
in the description so that you can read about it.
If you want.
It is fancy.
This is a Tenet keyboard.
It sounds great.
It looks amazing.
It's probably one of the weirdest and most
difficult keyboards that I've ever built in my life.
I now understand that I have small brain
and that anything that involves this amount
of thinking is too hard for me.
I hope you do better than me
and I'll see you in the next one. Bye!