.Our company allow enthusiasts of unique wrist watches right here at Hackaday, so it didn’t take lengthy before somebody called our attention to the gloriously bright wristwatch that [Henner Zeller] was actually wearing at this year’s Supercon.He calls it the Glowtape, and also it makes use of a heavy assortment of UV LEDs as well as a long bit of glow-in-the-dark component to show the moment as well as time, as well as images and also long cords of text drawn up flat to make an unplanned banner. It looked fantastic personally, along with the stimulated areas on the tape glowing brightly in the course of the night festivities in the alleyway.The text and images would discolor relatively swiftly, however virtual, that is actually barely a concern when you’re only attempting to inspect the present time. If there was one thing to restrict the practicality on this set, it will have to be the meter-long item of component that you’ve come to always keep pushing as well as drawing via the system– however it’s a price our company’re willing to pay out.Desire among your personal?
[Henner] has actually shared each of the resource code for the wearable, coming from the OpenSCAD scripts to generate the 3D published enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that operates the show. The LED selection itself is actually a derivative of his Glowxels project, which deserves taking a look at if you ‘d like to recreate this principle on a much larger incrustation.This isn’t the first time our company have actually viewed this approach made use of for this kind of thing, but it might be actually the best sleek version of the principle our team’ve seen so far.