.We allow followers of unusual watches right here at Hackaday, so it really did not take lengthy before someone phoned our interest to the gloriously luminescent timepiece that [Henner Zeller] was using at this year’s Supercon.He phones it the Glowtape, and it utilizes a thick array of UV LEDs and also a lengthy strip of glow-in-the-dark material to display the amount of time and time, in addition to images as well as long strands of message written out horizontally to generate an unplanned streamer. It looked remarkable personally, along with the invigorated places on the tape radiant brilliantly during the evening celebrations in the alley.The text as well as graphics will vanish rather promptly, but virtual, that is actually barely a problem when you are actually only trying to check the existing opportunity. If there was actually one thing to confine the usefulness on this, it would must be the meter-long item of product that you’ve reached keep pressing as well as taking by means of the device– but it is actually a price we agree to spend.Desire one of your personal?
[Henner] has discussed every one of the resource code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD scripts to create the 3D published enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that runs the show. The LED array on its own is really a derivative of his Glowxels project, which costs checking out if you would love to recreate this concept on a much bigger scale.This isn’t the very first time our company’ve observed this procedure made use of for this kind of thing, yet it might be one of the most compact version of the idea our company’ve observed thus far.