[GB] Pizza65 R2 | The Made In Italy minimalistic 65% is back | Shipping

[PizzaKeyboards]

Pizza is finally back!

We launched the Pizza Keyboards project nearly 1 year ago with a very specific roadmap in mind, and the response has been amazing.

Our first mission was to offer fast shipping times with no compromise on the product quality, and we achieved it by partnering with local suppliers. Starting from this idea we developed a simple product that aimed at pragmaticism: a seamless, minimalistic top-mount style board with a great sound profile and lot of customization possibilities, thanks to the specifically designed PizzaPCB, supporting ANSI/ISO compatibility and extra broken-out GPIO pins.

We are now ready to launch again our Pizza65, improving our solid recipe to bring it at the next quality level!

The casing is now made of an upgraded, higher quality 6082 series aluminum and then hand-finished with a new sandblasting process. We are also collaborating with a new partner for better anodization: this results in a premium, grainy looking but smooth at touch surface finish. To match this rich texture we decided to add a new sandblasted option for our brass plate (both ANSI and ISO):

And we are also introducing a new clear-anodized Silver Ash colorway to celebrate this beautiful material and the great finish we achieved: this special edition will be exclusively available with our new brass option.

Along with the new improved Pizza65 R2 we are officially launching the most requested feature since our first release, the new hot-swap Slice65 PCB!

Available in ANSI and featuring the newly released 2nd Generation Kailh Hot-Swap sockets, the Slice65 maintains and improves the features of the original PizzaPCB.
 - HASL-Lead Free matte black finish
 - Extra GPIO Pins
 - STM32 F0 Microcontroller
 - QMK and VIA compatibility
 - Redesigned ESD protection
 - 6000 cycle hot-swap sockets by Kailh (vs the 100 cycle original 1st gen available in most PCBs)
*more pics coming soon*

A more limited batch of the original solderable PizzaPCB will be available during the GB.
PizzaPCB supports both ISO and ANSI, stepped capslock and split backspace.
 
*pics coming soon*

Pizza65 specs

 - Seamless Top-mount design
 - 7 degrees angle
 -  Made of 6082 series aluminum
 -  Machined, finished and anodized in Italy by different specialized partners
 - Weighs Approximately 1.5 Kilograms without PCB and components
 - Compatible with Slice65, PizzaPCB and most third part 65% PCBs
Plate options:
 - 1.5mm Aluminum Plate (ANSI only)
 - 1.5 mm Sandblasted Brass Plate (ANSI only)
 - 1.5mm Shiny Hand-Polished brass plate (ANSI and ISO)


Pricing and Availability



                           
                           

	|  Pizza65 with Aluminum Plate  |	|  Pizza65 with Brass Plate  |
No PCB included	249.99€	279.99€
PizzaPCB Solderable ANSI/ISO	299.99€	329.99€
Slice65 Hot-Swap ANSI	309.99€	339.99€

Please note that ISO combos, that includes solderable PizzaPCB and the Shiny Hand Polished ISO Brass Plate, will be particularly limited. As for the old GB, aluminum plates are ANSI only.
The Pizza-box shaped packaging includes fixings, rubber pads and stickers.


The first ten customers that will place an order containing a Pizza65 R2 will receive one of our new Marinara Lube for free!
Marinara Lube is our custom-packed Krytox™ GPL205 Grade 2 PTFE grease*, optimal for lubing keyboard parts as stabs and switches.

*please note that Krytox™ is a trademark of The Chemours Company FC, LLC. and that Pizza Keyboards Srls is not related in any way to The Chemours Company.





Taeha's Impressions on the original Pizza65:

And Sam Pak's:

PREORDERS STARTING MONDAY 27 SEPTEMBER AT 17:00 GMT - FCFS, limited quantities available, ending October 27
Hosted on our own platform: www.keyboards.pizza

Shippings organized in batches, first orders ships Q4 2021 and GB fulfillment expected for February 2022

Follow us or get in touch via Instagram: www.instagram.com/pizzakeyboards
Join the ClickyClackClub Discord Server to enter the discussion in the Pizza Keyboards' room

Previous Round 1 thread

                       

[posph]

Finally an Hot Swap pcb!
I'll wait for the photos

[mr_foggy]

AMAZING news.
the new color + hotswap pcb + V2 sockets = instabuy.
good thing it drops on payday LOL.

[ireverliat]

Silver color looks dope! 

[arvindvma]

Clean and minimalistic. I like it. And, with new hotswap sockets 

Will you post more pics before the GB starts? Would like to see how the silver ano looks.

[I5 20VT]

Aaaw, the silver version is ANSI only. *sad ISO noices*

[pixelpusher]

WOOHOO. PIZZA PARTY!!

[ylothar]

Guys but is it really that impossible to offer all the ISO options? You are Italian, I find it somewhat difficult to understand ... eddai 

[PizzaKeyboards]

Clean and minimalistic. I like it. And, with new hotswap sockets 

Will you post more pics before the GB starts? Would like to see how the silver ano looks.

We have just posted them on our Instagram as well.
Here is the Silver Ash in all its glory 

[PizzaKeyboards]

Aaaw, the silver version is ANSI only. *sad ISO noices*

Guys but is it really that impossible to offer all the ISO options? You are Italian, I find it somewhat difficult to understand ... eddai 

After the multiple requests we decided to make the new Sandblasted Brass Plate and the Silver Ash Edition available in ISO too. Unfortunately it's not easy for us to offer ISO because MOQ is pretty difficult to reach, but we are glad to offer this new colorway in our European layout! Silver Ash ISO will come with PizzaPCB, all the info coming on the web page

[ylothar]

After the multiple requests we decided to make the new Sandblasted Brass Plate and the Silver Ash Edition available in ISO too. Unfortunately it's not easy for us to offer ISO because MOQ is pretty difficult to reach, but we are glad to offer this new colorway in our European layout! Silver Ash ISO will come with PizzaPCB, all the info coming on the web page

Great news!!!  (grazie!!!)

If I can give you some advice, you know what they say in our country, no? "lontano dagli occhi, lontano dal cuore" ["Out of sight, out of mind"].
You could maybe do some render with ISO layout to tempt people ... 

[PizzaKeyboards]

GB now live!
https://keyboards.pizza

[I5 20VT]

Just joined for a silver ISO board, can´t wait

[makit]

Already ordered mine, couldn't resist that Silver Ash Edition

[ylothar]

I missed first round but not this one

[ainet]

Count me in! 

[ShandonCodes]

Board look eh, but I LOVE that PCB and box lol

[PizzaKeyboards]

We have uploaded a new typing test on our youtube channel.
Go check that out! 

t=1s

[PizzaKeyboards]

Week 1 surprise: we are now giving the possibility the buy replacement top parts for the Pizza65, in any color.
Thanks to the seamless top mount design this allows to rapidly change the visible color of the board (and naturally they are compatible with original R1 Pizzas).
Stay tuned for more news, we have one that you will probably like planned for next monday!

P.S. If someone that already placed an R2 order wants to add it please contact us via info@keyboards.pizza or DM us on Instagram (if it comes back online  )

[Timception]

Too bad fedex is used to deliver to my country, they suck, DHL is way better, instanope

[mr_foggy]

Too bad fedex is used to deliver to my country, they suck, DHL is way better, instanope

imagine skipping on an amazing keyboard because of the logo on the delivery truck lmao

[PizzaKeyboards]

GIVEAWAY ALERT
Win 500$ worth of keyboards goodies!

To celebrate the halfway of the Pizza65 R2 Group Buy we are giving away to a lucky winner:

• One Pizza65 R2, color and plate variant at your choice
• One Slice65 Hot-Swap PCB
• One Marinara Lube
• A custom cable from moltenkhor

All you have to do is follow our Instagram pages PizzaKeyboards
and moltenkhor, like the giveaway post and comment tagging a friend of yours.

Plus if you have already placed an order during the R2 Group Buy you can get 2 extra entries, tripling your chances!

Write a mail at info@keyboards.pizza with your order number, order mail and Instagram username.

The Giveaway will end on Friday 15th October at 18:00 GMT.
Good luck!

[Carnibal]

Love the idea and the seamless design!
Even if the weight is missing!

[Timception]

Too bad fedex is used to deliver to my country, they suck, DHL is way better, instanope

imagine skipping on an amazing keyboard because of the logo on the delivery truck lmao

sorry for not clarifying my reason. It is not because of the logo, it's because they additionally tax you very heavily upon arrival.
I do not want to skip this fyi.

[PizzaKeyboards]

Last two days before the end of the GB   

[PizzaKeyboards]

GB ended, We are glad to announce that the Pizza65 R2 has entered the production phase.
Thanks to everyone who joined us during this last month! 

[supermunny]

I don't know why I needed a fourth 65% board, but I was unable to resist that red... now I need some red keycaps, GMK Jamon is great, but looking at the GB numbers, probably next to impossible to find with the ISO kit.

[PizzaKeyboards]

I am happy to announce that the sandblasted brass plate has arrived 

[PizzaKeyboards]

Production Update

Unfortunately due to chips shortage we had significant delays with the production of the SlicePCBs and PizzaPCBs, after months of research we found the way to gather the missing parts paying more than 600% MSRP to have them delivered as fast as possible. Unfortunately thid has led to the postponement of the date for the shipment of the first batch. The PizzaPCB production has now arrived to the warehouse and the SlicePCB is currently in production and we are now preparing for the shipment of an initial batch of order that included PizzaPCBs.
We apologize for the inconvenience, future updates regarding the production will arrive soon.
Thank you

[PizzaKeyboards]

Pizza Keyboards, MoltenKhor and Galvo togheter to build the ultimate keyboard setup for the italian professional eSports player Pow3r.
Take a glance at the collaboration 

[supermunny]

Are we still on track for GB fulfilment this month?

[PizzaKeyboards]

Are we still on track for GB fulfilment this month?

Yes, we should start shipping the first orders with the Pizza PCB by the end of this month

[PizzaKeyboards]

I am happy to announce that the Pizza65 R2 batch is finally here!
Shipping will start by end of the week!

[supermunny]

I am happy to announce that the Pizza65 R2 batch is finally here!
Shipping will start by end of the week!

A month has passed but I haven't seen any signs of this shipping, no product or shipping notices... what's up, can you give updates?

[PizzaKeyboards]

As we already stated multiple times due to the actual STM controller lack we had significant delays with the production of the hotswaps PCBs. Unfortunately the big shortage started just when we were about to send in the production and we found ourselves in a difficult situation: we had ready prototypes and parts for a PCB that was actually impossible to manufacture in the quantities we needed.
We are trying to do everything to solve the situation as soon as possible. The electronic design has been completely changed using only in-stocks parts and we are about to start the production.
In the meantime we are shipping the R2 boards with solderable PizzaPCB and we are willing to be more clear and costant in future production updates.
Founding ourselves in this previously unseen situation made us underestimate many issues that led us to accumulate a big delay, and that’s our fault.
We tried till the end to bring the Slice65 as initially designed and when we finally found all the parts we discovered that one of the secondary suppliers that sold us the controllers scammed us with used parts, unsoldered from old boards and with oxydated or broken pins, that were unusable to make the boards, and we are still waiting for a refund for this parts the we payed 600% up from retail.
Sorry to everyone that bought a Pizza65 R2.
Hope that the attention to details and love that we put in this product will compensate the long wait for it when we will finally deliver it.
We have big plans for the future: as soon as we end shipping all the Pizza65 R2 GB we will bring a totally new project and every customer that supported us in this unlucky run will be compensated

[ryanbaekr]

I think we understand that orders that included the SlicePCB have been delayed, but for those of us that ordered with a PizzaPCB, did they ship at the end of February? It doesn't seem like they did and we've been left in the dark since that update in early February

[ALOHAKB]

I like the green suit

[PizzaKeyboards]

I think we understand that orders that included the SlicePCB have been delayed, but for those of us that ordered with a PizzaPCB, did they ship at the end of February? It doesn't seem like they did and we've been left in the dark since that update in early February

Most orders with the PizzaPCB have been shipped, we are waiting for the last small batch from our manufacturer to finish.
They should arrive by the end of the month

[zxc200098]

can i getf first picture deskmat name?
thanks

[max.clacks]

can i getf first picture deskmat name?
thanks

That's the Bonsai deskmat that was sold as part of the GMK Sumi groupbuy.

[h_]

As we already stated multiple times due to the actual STM controller lack we had significant delays with the production of the hotswaps PCBs. Unfortunately the big shortage started just when we were about to send in the production and we found ourselves in a difficult situation: we had ready prototypes and parts for a PCB that was actually impossible to manufacture in the quantities we needed.
We are trying to do everything to solve the situation as soon as possible. The electronic design has been completely changed using only in-stocks parts and we are about to start the production.
In the meantime we are shipping the R2 boards with solderable PizzaPCB and we are willing to be more clear and costant in future production updates.
Founding ourselves in this previously unseen situation made us underestimate many issues that led us to accumulate a big delay, and that’s our fault.
We tried till the end to bring the Slice65 as initially designed and when we finally found all the parts we discovered that one of the secondary suppliers that sold us the controllers scammed us with used parts, unsoldered from old boards and with oxydated or broken pins, that were unusable to make the boards, and we are still waiting for a refund for this parts the we payed 600% up from retail.
Sorry to everyone that bought a Pizza65 R2.
Hope that the attention to details and love that we put in this product will compensate the long wait for it when we will finally deliver it.
We have big plans for the future: as soon as we end shipping all the Pizza65 R2 GB we will bring a totally new project and every customer that supported us in this unlucky run will be compensated

I appreciate the update here. An update on the website or mailing the users with a statement would be great. I think most of the people who pre-ordered can understand the issues. I read between the lines that you admit that the communication could be better. It is hard to understand when there are social media posts, but no replays on questions or at least a general announcement (not only here). Also, isn't it a part of group buys? Delays

As far as I know it is hard to get original parts, especially micro controllers. There are a lot of fakes out there, orders get canceled or as described you get crap parts. So, keep up the work! I hope it will went well and you don't make loses. I guess the time invested to get around the issues and find a solution is also priceless.

[I5 20VT]

As we already stated multiple times due to the actual STM controller lack we had significant delays with the production of the hotswaps PCBs. Unfortunately the big shortage started just when we were about to send in the production and we found ourselves in a difficult situation: we had ready prototypes and parts for a PCB that was actually impossible to manufacture in the quantities we needed.
We are trying to do everything to solve the situation as soon as possible. The electronic design has been completely changed using only in-stocks parts and we are about to start the production.
In the meantime we are shipping the R2 boards with solderable PizzaPCB and we are willing to be more clear and costant in future production updates.
Founding ourselves in this previously unseen situation made us underestimate many issues that led us to accumulate a big delay, and that’s our fault.
We tried till the end to bring the Slice65 as initially designed and when we finally found all the parts we discovered that one of the secondary suppliers that sold us the controllers scammed us with used parts, unsoldered from old boards and with oxydated or broken pins, that were unusable to make the boards, and we are still waiting for a refund for this parts the we payed 600% up from retail.
Sorry to everyone that bought a Pizza65 R2.
Hope that the attention to details and love that we put in this product will compensate the long wait for it when we will finally deliver it.
We have big plans for the future: as soon as we end shipping all the Pizza65 R2 GB we will bring a totally new project and every customer that supported us in this unlucky run will be compensated

I appreciate the update here. An update on the website or mailing the users with a statement would be great. I think most of the people who pre-ordered can understand the issues. I read between the lines that you admit that the communication could be better. It is hard to understand when there are social media posts, but no replays on questions or at least a general announcement (not only here). Also, isn't it a part of group buys? Delays

As far as I know it is hard to get original parts, especially micro controllers. There are a lot of fakes out there, orders get canceled or as described you get crap parts. So, keep up the work! I hope it will went well and you don't make loses. I guess the time invested to get around the issues and find a solution is also priceless.

Agreed, info on social media should also be posted here.

I´m still waiting for my board, and that is with the non hot-swap PCB that supposedly was going to be shipped faster. Delays due to unforeseen consequences are ok, just as long the "buyers" are kept in the loop.

With that said, I can´t wait until I get my Pizza board

[supermunny]

So... has anyone received and built their PizzaPCB board yet? I would assume so since the first batch was supposedly shipped four months ago, and the rest, apart from "the last small batch" almost two months ago. How is it, any photos?

I'm not that disappointed about the delays, just with the very vague communication.

[ryanbaekr]

So... has anyone received and built their PizzaPCB board yet? I would assume so since the first batch was supposedly shipped four months ago, and the rest, apart from "the last small batch" almost two months ago. How is it, any photos?

I'm not that disappointed about the delays, just with the very vague communication.

As far as I can tell nobody has received a board yet. I know I haven't

[PizzaKeyboards]

We are really sorry if the feeling was we were hiding something.
We are aware that we did not post enough here on Geekhack about updates and we will start communicating more and on all our platforms.
Many orders with PizzaPCB have already been fulfilled and some customers already have built their R2, while we had some delays on order containing Silver Ash and Pearl Ruby Red boards (including silver and red top parts) due to some quality inconsistency in the anodizing, that we managed to fix. We are currently waiting for the last board to be manufactured and in the next days we will receive the final shipment, so we will have all the boards, all the plates and all the PizzaPCBs in hand, while we are currently waiting for the new components that we bought to be delivered to our PCB supplier so that we can receive the new Slice Rev 2 prototypes and start the production.

[I5 20VT]

Thank you for the update. Much appreciated

[PizzaKeyboards]

With pleasure I announce that the microcontrollers for the Slice65 have finally arrived.
We will ship them to our manufacturer as soon as possible, more updates will arrive.
Thank you all for the support and we are sorry again for the delay.

[supermunny]

We are aware that we did not post enough here on Geekhack about updates and we will start communicating more and on all our platforms.
Many orders with PizzaPCB have already been fulfilled [...] We are currently waiting for the last board to be manufactured and in the next days we will receive the final shipment.

A month went by again, did the "last board" get manufactured yet? Were the PizzaPCB boards shipped? I was hoping the "communicating more on all platforms" would have meant something more than a single photo of a keyboard, like maybe an actual e-mail explaining the situation to the customers at some point?

[mr_foggy]

We are aware that we did not post enough here on Geekhack about updates and we will start communicating more and on all our platforms.
Many orders with PizzaPCB have already been fulfilled [...] We are currently waiting for the last board to be manufactured and in the next days we will receive the final shipment.

A month went by again, did the "last board" get manufactured yet? Were the PizzaPCB boards shipped? I was hoping the "communicating more on all platforms" would have meant something more than a single photo of a keyboard, like maybe an actual e-mail explaining the situation to the customers at some point?

the message right above yours is the update you're looking for. less moaning more reading.

[supermunny]

the message right above yours is the update you're looking for. less moaning more reading.

Nope, it's not. SlicePCB (Slice65) & PizzaPCB are two different products.

Just to recap the the status messages of PizzaPCB on this thread:
- December 21: preparing shipping of first batch
- End of February: starting shipping of first orders
- Beginning of March: shipping will start by the end of week
- Beginning of April: most orders shipped
- End of April: waiting for last board

End of May, still haven't seen a single board here or anywhere else...

[PizzaKeyboards]

Finally the last batch of Silver Ash Pizza65s has arrived, so that we can ship all the PizzaPCB orders by the end of this week.
As for the Slice65 we are still waiting for the Rev 2 prototypes from our supplier, but if all goes smooth as expected we can enter production quite soon and finally ship the hot-swap boards. We can’t wait for you to test out the Slice65 with the new Kailh V2s, wich are great.
We apologize again for the delays, but again this was an hell of a ride with lot of new problems to face for us.

[Yep_Bolt]

I love this project.

This is my pizza65 r2 becouse I could not partecipate at r1.
Thank you for new opprotunity to R2 GB

[PizzaKeyboards]

I am happy to announce that all orders containing the PizzaPCB have been shipped! 
We can't wait to see your builds!
Updates will follow regarding the status of the Slice65 orders

[h_]

Can confirm. My Pizza arrived today 🎉 Now I have to wait for another 1-2 months for the matching key caps to arrive 🤣. At least I already finished lubing switches and can now begin to solder the Mill-Max sockets. And maybe a cable …

[I5 20VT]

My Pizza65 arrived today

[pixelpusher]

Good looking packaging and keeb.  Also, great photography 

[I5 20VT]

Good looking packaging and keeb.  Also, great photography 

Thank you! I will be a fun weekend project

And agreed, the packaging is rather nice

[I5 20VT]

And it´s done for now 






More here: https://imgur.com/a/Z3rpYWU

[Jung]

Any updates on the Slice65 orders?

[Rationalkeys]

Ohh that red one is alarmingly good.

[PizzaKeyboards]

Any updates on the Slice65 orders?

Hi Jung, having solved our problems we were able to start the production of our PCBs.
We should receive them by the last week of October / first of November, from then the remaining shipments will leave.
We will try to package and ship all orders as soon as possible, we know we have made you wait a long time but we hope you are as confident in our work as you have always done until now.
Best Regards

[Jung]

Thank you for the prompt reply! Cheers.

[PizzaKeyboards]

We just received the shipping notice for the PCBs!
They should arrive in the middle of the next week, we will do our best and try to ship all the orders in a couple of days. We expect to start shipping on november 25
As soon as we receive the Slices we will start packing nonstop.
Thanks to everyone for the huge patience, I know it was really tough.
Hopefully it will be worth it!

[PizzaKeyboards]

Pizza65 R2 Extras are dropping this Tuesday at 17:00 GMT!
Very limited quantities, FCFS on www.keyboards.pizza
Both Hot Swap Slice65 and Solderable PizzaPCB units available, all the extras are ready-to-ship and will depart as soon as the all the GB preorders will be shipped.

[Jung]

Anyone having issues with the Slice65 PCB? I'm on macOS Monterey and the volume +/-, screen brightness +/-, and media playback doesn't work after remapped with VIA.

[vrapan]

hi guys, so tried to purchase a HS PCB... I mean the 70 euros for it is quite steep but what got to me - and bulked down - is the 30 euros shipping to the UK.... I mean it is a PCB it probably weighs less than 100gr with packaging. I work in a business where we ship from the UK to pretty much everywhere in the world, I think nothing we ship costs us more than 20-25£ to ship even when we are shipping to the weirdest and remotest places! Is that the correct price? Can you provide a more cost effective way to ship?

Failing that anyone in the UK interested in bulk buying a few PCBs to share the shipping cost. I want to rebuild my keyboard but no matter how much I like it it is not worth 100 euros for a PCB no matter how i see it

[mr_foggy]

hi guys, so tried to purchase a HS PCB... I mean the 70 euros for it is quite steep but what got to me - and bulked down - is the 30 euros shipping to the UK.... I mean it is a PCB it probably weighs less than 100gr with packaging. I work in a business where we ship from the UK to pretty much everywhere in the world, I think nothing we ship costs us more than 20-25£ to ship even when we are shipping to the weirdest and remotest places! Is that the correct price? Can you provide a more cost effective way to ship?

Failing that anyone in the UK interested in bulk buying a few PCBs to share the shipping cost. I want to rebuild my keyboard but no matter how much I like it it is not worth 100 euros for a PCB no matter how i see it

buy a KBD67 hotswap pcb and be done with it

[I5 20VT]

Can confirm, the KBD67 PCB fits perfectly. I´m using a KBD67 Lite R3 HS PCB at this moment 👍

[vrapan]

Can confirm, the KBD67 PCB fits perfectly. I´m using a KBD67 Lite R3 HS PCB at this moment 👍

They are OOS everywhere, that's what happened the first time i tried to buy it and when i got a reminder that it was back in stock i did the stupid mistake to buy a solderable.

Anyway i will ask for a reminder again and see how it goes.

[pixelpusher]

Can confirm, the KBD67 PCB fits perfectly. I´m using a KBD67 Lite R3 HS PCB at this moment 👍

They are OOS everywhere, that's what happened the first time i tried to buy it and when i got a reminder that it was back in stock i did the stupid mistake to buy a solderable.

Anyway i will ask for a reminder again and see how it goes.

Divinikey has them in stock.  Not sure where you are located though.

[Jung]

Any updates on the Slice65 orders?

Hi Jung, having solved our problems we were able to start the production of our PCBs.
We should receive them by the last week of October / first of November, from then the remaining shipments will leave.
We will try to package and ship all orders as soon as possible, we know we have made you wait a long time but we hope you are as confident in our work as you have always done until now.
Best Regards

You sold me a dud PCB and you've stalled me since first week of Dec 2022. I've emailed you 4 times and every time you said you're working on the a fix. You don't reply to Instagram or Facebook, and you're now ignoring emails.

Buyer beware.

[diddus]

Any updates on the Slice65 orders?

Hi Jung, having solved our problems we were able to start the production of our PCBs.
We should receive them by the last week of October / first of November, from then the remaining shipments will leave.
We will try to package and ship all orders as soon as possible, we know we have made you wait a long time but we hope you are as confident in our work as you have always done until now.
Best Regards

You sold me a dud PCB and you've stalled me since first week of Dec 2022. I've emailed you 4 times and every time you said you're working on the a fix. You don't reply to Instagram or Facebook, and you're now ignoring emails.

Buyer beware.

Same for me. I ordered the black replacement top piece but received the silver one. No reply since mid of December, ignoring all of my emails since.

[PizzaKeyboards]

Any updates on the Slice65 orders?

Hi Jung, having solved our problems we were able to start the production of our PCBs.
We should receive them by the last week of October / first of November, from then the remaining shipments will leave.
We will try to package and ship all orders as soon as possible, we know we have made you wait a long time but we hope you are as confident in our work as you have always done until now.
Best Regards

You sold me a dud PCB and you've stalled me since first week of Dec 2022. I've emailed you 4 times and every time you said you're working on the a fix. You don't reply to Instagram or Facebook, and you're now ignoring emails.

Buyer beware.

Hi guys, sorry for the delay in responding.
I'm here to answer all your doubts and clarify the situation regarding the Slice65.
Unfortunately the STM microcontroller we decided to use in production so that we could solve all the shortage situation it's making it difficult for us to add this features. The person that we hired to design the Slice65 (and that offered himself to write the firmware and to host it on his own GitHub) is basically ghosting us, he stopped answering all of our request and so we are trying the get our hands on the project.
We certainly don't want to dump all the responsability on him and in fact we understand your resentment towards us and we ask you once again to wait a little longer to be able to solve the problem that would appear to be related to chip memory space problems.
At the moment we are asking help to professional figures in order to see if it's fixable.
Updates will follow

[PizzaKeyboards]

Any updates on the Slice65 orders?

Hi Jung, having solved our problems we were able to start the production of our PCBs.
We should receive them by the last week of October / first of November, from then the remaining shipments will leave.
We will try to package and ship all orders as soon as possible, we know we have made you wait a long time but we hope you are as confident in our work as you have always done until now.
Best Regards

You sold me a dud PCB and you've stalled me since first week of Dec 2022. I've emailed you 4 times and every time you said you're working on the a fix. You don't reply to Instagram or Facebook, and you're now ignoring emails.

Buyer beware.

Same for me. I ordered the black replacement top piece but received the silver one. No reply since mid of December, ignoring all of my emails since.

Right now we are answering at all our left out mail

[diddus]

Any updates on the Slice65 orders?

Hi Jung, having solved our problems we were able to start the production of our PCBs.
We should receive them by the last week of October / first of November, from then the remaining shipments will leave.
We will try to package and ship all orders as soon as possible, we know we have made you wait a long time but we hope you are as confident in our work as you have always done until now.
Best Regards

You sold me a dud PCB and you've stalled me since first week of Dec 2022. I've emailed you 4 times and every time you said you're working on the a fix. You don't reply to Instagram or Facebook, and you're now ignoring emails.

Buyer beware.

Same for me. I ordered the black replacement top piece but received the silver one. No reply since mid of December, ignoring all of my emails since.

Right now we are answering at all our left out mail

Thank's! Problem solved

[Striker78]

I used https://usevia.app/#/ to configure the keyboard, as directed in their blog post on "How to use VIA with the Slice65 Hot-Swap PCB, while waiting for QMK to merge our request".  It worked great and I'm already getting used to using layers.

I want to implement some functionality that doesn't seem to be available in VIA.  I program in C++, so I don't think QMK would be too difficult for me, but I'm not sure exactly what I need in order to get started.

I have read: https://keyboards.pizza/blogs/news/how-to-use-via-with-the-slice65-hot-swap-pcb-while-waiting-for-qmk-to-merge-our-request

If I'm understanding the situation correctly, the slice65 firmware has been developed by Pizza Keyboards, but has not yet been merged into qmk_firmware.  When I check for pull requests or issues I can only find the pull request for the last keyboard.  https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/pull/11604

When I look through "firmware" it looks like not too much more than some c++ code that describes the layout of the PCB.  Does anyone know where this unmerged source code is?  Seems like I should be able to fork the qmk_firmware repo, merge it into my own repo, and compile some new firmware.

Please advise.

Thx,
Chad

[Jung]

Any updates on the Slice65 orders?

Hi Jung, having solved our problems we were able to start the production of our PCBs.
We should receive them by the last week of October / first of November, from then the remaining shipments will leave.
We will try to package and ship all orders as soon as possible, we know we have made you wait a long time but we hope you are as confident in our work as you have always done until now.
Best Regards

You sold me a dud PCB and you've stalled me since first week of Dec 2022. I've emailed you 4 times and every time you said you're working on the a fix. You don't reply to Instagram or Facebook, and you're now ignoring emails.

Buyer beware.

I received an email from Pizza Keyboards with the new firmware. You can download it in the same blog posts from Nov 2022: https://keyboards.pizza/blogs/news/how-to-use-via-with-the-slice65-hot-swap-pcb-while-waiting-for-qmk-to-merge-our-request
I wish they made a separate blog post and come clean about what has happened, but I'm glad it got fixed.

[Striker78]

I received an email from Pizza Keyboards with the new firmware. You can download it in the same blog posts from Nov 2022: https://keyboards.pizza/blogs/news/how-to-use-via-with-the-slice65-hot-swap-pcb-while-waiting-for-qmk-to-merge-our-request
I wish they made a separate blog post and come clean about what has happened, but I'm glad it got fixed.

Jung, thanks for your reply.  I did download the compiled binary file from that blog post.  Unless I'm mistaken, I can't compile my own QMK binary until I get the slice65 version of this file:

https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keyboards/pizzakeyboards/pizza65/pizza65.h

[PizzaKeyboards]

Hi everyone! Yes the firmware has been fixed. I'm sorry that the release required some time, during the last days I've been reaching out to people that contacted us because of the media keys issues while waiting for the official announcement, because we were building a new dedicated space for Pizza Keyboards owners and keyboards enthusiast in general.
In fact today we are launching a new Discord Community with nice stuff like  downloads section (including binaries, source files, models), direct technical support, discussions, off-topics, and many more. If you have Discord you can join through this link:https://discord.com/invite/vpbzFrZJ38
In the next days I will update the firmware again so that it can be used with Vial, wich looks like a really cool VIA alternative with more features.

[PizzaKeyboards]

I received an email from Pizza Keyboards with the new firmware. You can download it in the same blog posts from Nov 2022: https://keyboards.pizza/blogs/news/how-to-use-via-with-the-slice65-hot-swap-pcb-while-waiting-for-qmk-to-merge-our-request
I wish they made a separate blog post and come clean about what has happened, but I'm glad it got fixed.

Jung, thanks for your reply.  I did download the compiled binary file from that blog post.  Unless I'm mistaken, I can't compile my own QMK binary until I get the slice65 version of this file:

https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keyboards/pizzakeyboards/pizza65/pizza65.h

Yes, you need the Slice65 source for building your own firmware, not only the slice65.h file but the entire folder since many things are different. Then you could use QMK configurator to build a .json keymap file and use a specific QMK feature that lets you convert the JSON to a keymap.c file, usable to be compiled. The source is already available on the Discord, since it's not very common for our users to compile the firmware itself I never considered uploading it to the website but I could write a detailed tutorial, it would be nice

[Striker78]

Hi everyone! Yes the firmware has been fixed. I'm sorry that the release required some time, during the last days I've been reaching out to people that contacted us because of the media keys issues while waiting for the official announcement, because we were building a new dedicated space for Pizza Keyboards owners and keyboards enthusiast in general.
In fact today we are launching a new Discord Community with nice stuff like  downloads section (including binaries, source files, models), direct technical support, discussions, off-topics, and many more. If you have Discord you can join through this link:https://discord.com/invite/vpbzFrZJ38
In the next days I will update the firmware again so that it can be used with Vial, wich looks like a really cool VIA alternative with more features.

Thank you for providing this code.  I've had a great time developing custom firmware for my slice65 over the past few days.

For those that don't know, making custom QMK firmware offers quite a bit more functionality that Via currently provides including:
* You can have up to 32 layers
* You can use keycodes that are not available in Via (mission control, launchpad, etc...)
* You can have keys that act like keys when pressed and modifies when held and other keys are typed
* You can have dynamic macos
* You can play sound out of pizio electric speakers you connect to the GPIO pins (I have not done this)
* etc.. (too much to list)

For those that don't know, normally (I gather), the source code is merged into the qmk_firmware github repository (https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware) so that users following the QMK Tutorial (https://docs.qmk.fm/#/newbs?id=the-qmk-tutorial) will be able to learn how to compile and flash their keyboard and learn how to make custom keymaps that suit their needs.

I have forked the qmk_firmware repo here (https://github.com/cskeeters/qmk_firmware_slice65).  In this repo, I have two branches:
* slice65 - just has the code from PizzaKeyboards with a few small fixes
* cskeeters - my current keymap

slice65_source.zip has been expanded in keyboards/pizzakeyboards/slice65.

Anyone wanting to build their own QMK firmware can clone my repo to their computer, checkout one of the branches mentioned, compile the firmware, and flash their board.  An outline of this process would be something like:

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brew install qmk/qmk/qmk
qmk setup cskeeters/qmk_firmware_slice65
cd qmk_firmware_slice65
git checkout slice65
qmk flash -j 8 -kb slice65 -km pizzakeyboards/slice65

Check out the readme for the keyboard here: https://github.com/cskeeters/qmk_firmware_slice65/tree/slice65/keyboards/pizzakeyboards/slice65
Check out the readme for the default keymap here: https://github.com/cskeeters/qmk_firmware_slice65/tree/slice65/keyboards/pizzakeyboards/slice65/keymaps/default
Check out the readme for the my custom keymap here: https://github.com/cskeeters/qmk_firmware_slice65/tree/cskeeters/keyboards/pizzakeyboards/slice65/keymaps/cskeeters

PizzaKeyboards (mm0nty?), I'd like to see this code get integrated into qmk_firmware.  If you are not planning on creating a pull request in the official qmk_firmware github repo, let me know and I will do it.  You're welcome to fork what I have done, modify it as you see fit, and create a pull request from that.