.We’re big enthusiasts of uncommon timekeepers right here at Hackaday, so it failed to take long before somebody contacted our attention to the gloriously luminous timepiece that [Henner Zeller] was actually wearing at this year’s Supercon.He phones it the Glowtape, and it makes use of a thick selection of UV LEDs as well as a long strip of glow-in-the-dark product to feature the moment and also time, and also graphics and lengthy strings of message drawn up flat to make an unplanned banner. It appeared fantastic in person, along with the invigorated places on the strip glowing brilliantly throughout the evening festivities in the back road.The content and images will discolor rather swiftly, however in practice, that’s hardly a concern when you’re merely making an effort to check out the current time. If there was actually something to restrict the practicality on this, it would have to be the meter-long part of component that you’ve got to keep pushing as well as pulling via the device– but it’s a price our company agree to pay for.Desire among your personal?
[Henner] has actually shared each of the resource code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD scripts to generate the 3D printed enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that manages the series. The LED range itself is in fact a sequel of his Glowxels venture, which deserves visiting if you ‘d like to create this principle on a much bigger scale.This isn’t the first time our experts have actually observed this strategy utilized for this example, yet it might be actually the absolute most small version of the principle our experts have actually found until now.