.Our experts allow enthusiasts of uncommon wrist watches here at Hackaday, so it really did not take long prior to a person called our attention to the gloriously bright watch that [Henner Zeller] was actually wearing at this year’s Supercon.He calls it the Glowtape, and it makes use of a dense range of UV LEDs and a lengthy strip of glow-in-the-dark product to feature the time as well as time, and also photos and long strings of text drawn up horizontally to generate an impromptu streamer. It looked incredible personally, with the stimulated regions on the tape radiant brilliantly in the course of the evening festivities in the back road.The message and also images will fade reasonably promptly, however virtual, that’s hardly a concern when you are actually merely trying to check out the existing opportunity. If there was actually one thing to confine the functionality on this set, it would certainly have to be actually the meter-long piece of material that you have actually reached always keep pressing and pulling via the mechanism– yet it is actually a price our company agree to pay for.Desire some of your own?
[Henner] has discussed all of the resource code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD scripts to create the 3D printed enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that runs the series. The LED selection on its own is really a sequel of his Glowxels project, which is worth taking a look at if you want to create this principle on a much larger scale.This isn’t the first time our experts have actually observed this approach used for this example, yet it might be the absolute most compact model of the principle we’ve seen so far.