.We’re big supporters of unusual watches right here at Hackaday, so it really did not take long just before somebody phoned our interest to the gloriously bright watch that [Henner Zeller] was wearing at this year’s Supercon.He calls it the Glowtape, and it makes use of a heavy selection of UV LEDs as well as a long strip of glow-in-the-dark component to display the moment and date, along with graphics as well as long strands of text drawn up flat to create an impromptu streamer. It appeared exceptional personally, along with the vitalized locations on the tape radiant brightly during the course of the night festivities in the alleyway.The text and also images would certainly fade fairly promptly, however virtual, that is actually hardly a concern when you are actually merely making an effort to check out the current time. If there was actually one thing to confine the usefulness on this, it would certainly have to be the meter-long item of component that you’ve come to always keep pressing as well as taking through the system– however it is actually a cost our experts’re willing to pay for.Desire among your own?
[Henner] has discussed all of the source code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD writings to generate the 3D published enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that runs the show. The LED collection on its own is actually a spin-off of his Glowxels job, which is worth checking out if you would love to create this idea on a much larger incrustation.This isn’t the very first time our team have actually seen this approach utilized for this example, however it might be the absolute most compact variation of the idea our company’ve found until now.