Spotted At Supercon: Glowtape Wearable Present

.Our team’re big fans of unusual timepieces below at Hackaday, so it didn’t take lengthy just before somebody called our interest to the gloriously bright watch that [Henner Zeller] was actually putting on at this year’s Supercon.He phones it the Glowtape, and it uses a thick range of UV LEDs as well as a long strip of glow-in-the-dark product to display the time and also time, and also graphics as well as lengthy cords of content written out horizontally to produce an impromptu ensign. It looked sensational personally, with the stimulated places on the tape radiant vibrantly throughout the night festivities in the alley.The text and also pictures will vanish fairly swiftly, yet virtual, that is actually rarely a problem when you’re merely attempting to inspect the current time. If there was one thing to limit the usefulness on this, it will must be actually the meter-long part of product that you’ve come to keep pushing as well as taking with the device– yet it’s a price our company’re willing to pay for.Want one of your very own?

[Henner] has actually discussed each 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 show. The LED collection itself is really a derivative of his Glowxels task, which is worth browsing through if you wish to create this principle on a much bigger scale.This isn’t the first time our company’ve seen this procedure used for this kind of thing, but it may be actually the most compact variation of the idea our experts have actually seen up until now.