.Our experts’re big enthusiasts of unusual timepieces right here at Hackaday, so it didn’t take lengthy prior to somebody contacted our attention to the gloriously bright timepiece that [Henner Zeller] was using at this year’s Supercon.He calls it the Glowtape, and it makes use of a thick assortment of UV LEDs and also a long strip of glow-in-the-dark product to display the time and day, as well as images and long strands of text written out horizontally to produce an unplanned streamer. It appeared incredible in person, with the stimulated regions on the strip glowing vibrantly during the course of the evening celebrations in the back road.The content and also pictures would fade rather swiftly, yet virtual, that is actually barely a complication when you’re merely making an effort to examine the present time. If there was something to limit the functionality on this one, it would certainly must be actually the meter-long item of material that you have actually got to keep pressing as well as taking through the system– however it’s a rate our team agree to pay.Prefer some of your personal?
[Henner] has discussed each 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 runs the program. The LED assortment itself is in fact a derivative of his Glowxels venture, which costs taking a look at if you ‘d like to recreate this idea on a much bigger scale.This isn’t the very first time we’ve found this technique used for this example, but it might be actually the best small variation of the idea our team’ve found so far.