.We’re big enthusiasts of unique watches listed here at Hackaday, so it failed to take long just before somebody contacted our interest to the gloriously luminescent wristwatch that [Henner Zeller] was actually wearing at this year’s Supercon.He calls it the Glowtape, as well as it makes use of a dense variety of UV LEDs and also a lengthy strip of glow-in-the-dark material to show the time and also time, in addition to pictures as well as long cords of message drawn up flat to create an unscripted banner. It looked remarkable personally, with the invigorated locations on the tape radiant brightly during the course of the night celebrations in the alleyway.The text and also images would fade relatively promptly, however virtual, that’s hardly a trouble when you are actually only trying to check out the present time. If there was actually one thing to confine the usefulness on this one, it will have to be actually the meter-long item of material that you’ve reached maintain pressing as well as taking by means of the system– yet it’s a price our team want to pay out.Prefer some of your own?
[Henner] has actually shared all of the resource code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD scripts to produce the 3D imprinted enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that operates the show. The LED collection itself is in fact a derivative of his Glowxels job, which deserves looking into if you want to recreate this concept on a much bigger incrustation.This isn’t the very first time our company’ve observed this approach utilized for this kind of thing, yet it may be actually the best portable version of the principle we’ve found until now.