.Our experts’re big fans of uncommon clocks listed here at Hackaday, so it didn’t take lengthy before a person called our interest to the gloriously luminescent watch that [Henner Zeller] was using at this year’s Supercon.He phones it the Glowtape, as well as it makes use of a dense collection of UV LEDs as well as a lengthy bit of glow-in-the-dark product to display the amount of time and date, and also pictures and also long strands of text drawn up flat to produce an unplanned streamer. It looked incredible face to face, along with the invigorated locations on the tape glowing vibrantly throughout the night festivities in the alley.The message and also photos would certainly fade reasonably rapidly, however virtual, that’s hardly a problem when you’re only attempting to examine the existing opportunity. If there was something to limit the functionality on this, it would certainly need to be actually the meter-long part of component that you have actually got to maintain driving and also pulling via the system– but it is actually a price our team’re willing to pay out.Really want among your very own?
[Henner] has shared all of the source code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD writings to generate the 3D printed enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that operates the series. The LED selection on its own is in fact a sequel of his Glowxels job, which costs having a look at if you would love to recreate this idea on a much larger scale.This isn’t the very first time we have actually seen this strategy utilized for this example, but it may be actually the best portable model of the concept our team’ve seen until now.