.We’re big enthusiasts of unique wrist watches right here at Hackaday, so it didn’t take long before somebody called our interest to the gloriously bright watch that [Henner Zeller] was actually putting on at this year’s Supercon.He calls it the Glowtape, and also it makes use of a dense range of UV LEDs as well as a long strip of glow-in-the-dark material to show the amount of time and time, as well as pictures and also long cords of text written out flat to generate an impromptu banner. It looked incredible personally, along with the stimulated locations on the tape glowing vibrantly throughout the evening celebrations in the alley.The text message as well as pictures will discolor relatively swiftly, but in practice, that’s rarely a trouble when you are actually only attempting to check out the present opportunity. If there was actually something to restrict the usefulness on this set, it will must be actually the meter-long item of material that you’ve got to keep pressing as well as pulling through the device– however it is actually a price our team’re willing to spend.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 manages the series. The LED assortment itself is actually a derivative of his Glowxels task, which deserves checking out if you wish to create this principle on a much bigger incrustation.This isn’t the very first time our team’ve seen this method utilized for this kind of thing, yet it may be the most compact variation of the concept our team have actually seen so far.