Spotted At Supercon: Glowtape Wearable Present

.We’re big followers of unique timepieces here at Hackaday, so it failed to take lengthy prior to somebody contacted our focus to the gloriously radiant watch that [Henner Zeller] was actually putting on at this year’s Supercon.He phones it the Glowtape, and it utilizes a heavy range of UV LEDs as well as a long bit of glow-in-the-dark component to display the time as well as day, and also pictures and also lengthy strings of content drawn up horizontally to generate an impromptu ensign. It looked wonderful face to face, with the stimulated places on the tape beautiful vibrantly throughout the night events in the alleyway.The text and images will fade reasonably swiftly, yet in practice, that is actually hardly a complication when you’re only trying to inspect the present time. If there was actually one thing to restrict the functionality on this one, it would certainly need to be the meter-long piece of product that you’ve got to always keep pressing and drawing with the device– but it is actually a rate our company’re willing to spend.Wish some of your own?

[Henner] has discussed every one of the resource code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD scripts to create the 3D imprinted enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that operates the program. The LED array on its own is really a derivative of his Glowxels venture, which deserves browsing through if you wish to create this principle on a much larger scale.This isn’t the very first time our team’ve found this method used for this kind of thing, however it may be actually the best sleek model of the concept our team’ve viewed until now.