.Our company allow fans of unique watches below at Hackaday, so it really did not take lengthy just before a person called our focus to the gloriously bright timepiece that [Henner Zeller] was wearing at this year’s Supercon.He phones it the Glowtape, and also it utilizes a dense array of UV LEDs and a long bit of glow-in-the-dark component to feature the amount of time as well as day, in addition to photos and also lengthy strings of message drawn up flat to develop an unscripted banner. It looked fantastic personally, with the vitalized places on the strip radiant vibrantly throughout the night festivities in the alleyway.The text as well as pictures would discolor relatively quickly, however virtual, that is actually hardly a complication when you’re merely trying to check the current time. If there was actually one thing to limit the usefulness on this one, it would certainly need to be the meter-long part of material that you’ve got to always keep pressing as well as drawing with the mechanism– however it is actually a price our company’re willing to pay out.Want among your personal?
[Henner] has shared each of the source code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD scripts to create the 3D published enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that manages the series. The LED array itself is in fact a sequel of his Glowxels task, which is worth looking at if you wish to recreate this principle on a much larger scale.This isn’t the first time our company have actually seen this technique made use of for this example, however it may be the most compact model of the principle our company have actually observed thus far.