.We’re big fans of unique time-keepers below at Hackaday, so it really did not take long prior to a person contacted our focus to the gloriously luminescent wristwatch that [Henner Zeller] was wearing at this year’s Supercon.He phones it the Glowtape, and also it uses a thick range of UV LEDs and a lengthy strip of glow-in-the-dark component to feature the moment and also day, in addition to graphics and also lengthy strands of message drawn up flat to make an unscripted streamer. It appeared remarkable face to face, with the vitalized places on the tape glowing brilliantly during the evening events in the back road.The text message and also photos would discolor reasonably rapidly, yet in practice, that’s rarely a complication when you’re only trying to check out the present time. If there was actually something to restrict the usefulness on this, it would need to be the meter-long part of material that you’ve got to keep driving and also taking via the system– however it’s a rate our team’re willing to pay out.Want some of your very own?
[Henner] has actually shared each one of the resource code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD writings to produce the 3D published enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that operates the show. The LED assortment on its own is actually a sequel of his Glowxels project, which costs looking at if you wish to create this principle on a much bigger incrustation.This isn’t the first time our experts’ve seen this technique made use of for this kind of thing, yet it might be the absolute most small version of the idea we’ve found thus far.