.Our company allow fans of uncommon clocks here at Hackaday, so it didn’t take long before somebody contacted our focus to the gloriously bright timepiece that [Henner Zeller] was actually wearing at this year’s Supercon.He calls it the Glowtape, as well as it utilizes a thick assortment of UV LEDs and also a lengthy bit of glow-in-the-dark component to show the time and also date, along with pictures and also lengthy strands of text drawn up flat to create an impromptu ensign. It appeared wonderful in person, along with the stimulated regions on the tape radiant brightly throughout the night celebrations in the alley.The text message and also graphics will vanish relatively rapidly, yet virtual, that is actually hardly a trouble when you’re only trying to inspect the existing time. If there was actually something to limit the functionality on this, it would certainly must be the meter-long item of component that you’ve come to maintain pressing and also taking via the mechanism– yet it is actually a cost our experts want to spend.Wish some of your very own?
[Henner] has actually discussed each of the resource code for the wearable, coming from the OpenSCAD writings to create the 3D imprinted enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that runs the show. The LED range itself is really a spin-off of his Glowxels job, which deserves checking out if you ‘d like to create this concept on a much larger scale.This isn’t the first time our company have actually seen this technique utilized for this kind of thing, but it might be one of the most small variation of the idea our team have actually viewed thus far.