[IC] First Love Switch by ICONLABS

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FIRST LOVE SWITCH
BY ICONLABS
(Pictures are real, not rendered!)

First love is a little foolish and a lot of curiosity. (George Bernard Shaw)

First Love switches are inspired by the purest emotions that many of us encountered.
"First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever."
The whole development process of this switch is purposely designed to evoke such feelings when typing, from color matching to selecting and twisting different switch components. The collaboration with Darklab has considerably helped us to bring this concept to life. And that's pretty much the story behind our first switch.

The switch has 2 main colors: blue and pink pastel. The color represents the cuteness and subtle memories that lasts in us of the first love. And not just the look but each keystroke also carries the same feeling. It's very smooth due the materials selected for the housing and stem, as well as the very light factory lube on the sliders. It's light as the spring we chose, which is 20mm and 50g bottom out, just enough to let your fingertips comfortably slides on the keyboard . Lastly, it sounds deep, probably as deep as the place that first love memories stay in our mind . After lots of tests, spring ping or leaf ping is confirmed as barely audible. We do hope typing on our First Love switches can remind people of the nice emotions during that period   




SWITCH SPEC

Top: modified PC
Bottom: POM
Stem: modified LY
Spring: 20mm
Pre-travel 2mm
Operating force 45g
Bottom out 50g
Total travel 3.2mm
Light factory lubed
Manu: BSUN
Expected price: ~59c

SPECIAL NOTE

As much as we want to bring this nice switch to the community worldwide, we are already producing the switches. We are actively looking for vendors to make the pre-order happening in different countries. The expected global pre-order time is the end of July, 2023

Final update: The GB duration is determined to be from 29/7 -29/8/2023


VENDORS


Vietnam: Keeb Accessories
EU: Keygem
UK: ProtoTypist
Singapore: Ktechs
Philippines: Iconic Blitz
Malaysia: Click and Brew
Oceania: Allcaps
North America: Mech.land
Thailand: NTCH Keys
ROW: Iconlabs


IC FORM
https://iconlabsofficial.com/2023/06/17/ic-first-love-switch/

Sound Test

[keepoto]

are there non-linear pins?

[IconlabsOfficial]

Unfortunately not yet

[sketch3v]

a little cart render is so cute 

[IconlabsOfficial]

All pictures are real sample switches, not rendered But yeah the cart is very cute 

[IconlabsOfficial]

Sound test updated

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 More sound test uploaded!

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Another sound test

[SwitchCollector]

Why was this switch renamed from Dream? Is it different? Do you claim to be the designer?

Dream by Dark Lab for reference
https://www.zfrontier.com/app/flow/1bbvmyB5dGGG

[IconlabsOfficial]

Thanks for your concern.

Well around Oct - Nov last year, there was a discussion between us & Dark Lad to collab and build a switch together. "Dream " is the name for this switch to launch within China first and it was later renamed "First Love" to launch globally.

We're sorry that the detailed collaboration could not be disclosed due to confidentiality.

[keybay.tech]

I like the color, and more custom switch plz LOL

[IconlabsOfficial]

Yup, more projects ahead 

[spikedsynapse]

Next time can you record the sound from inside the keyboard.... so i can really get the tone of it?

[IconlabsOfficial]

 
BTW, updated with vendors

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More sound test here

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Final update: The GB duration is determined to be from 29/7 -29/8/2023

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GB is live guys! Check this out

[nuxroskb]

I tried the switch and it's really great