.Our team’re big fans of unique wrist watches below at Hackaday, so it didn’t take lengthy prior to somebody contacted our focus to the gloriously luminescent wristwatch that [Henner Zeller] was actually using at this year’s Supercon.He phones it the Glowtape, and also it uses a dense variety of UV LEDs and also a lengthy bit of glow-in-the-dark component to feature the moment as well as time, in addition to photos and also lengthy strings of text drawn up flat to produce an unplanned streamer. It looked amazing in person, along with the vitalized locations on the strip beautiful brilliantly in the course of the night events in the alleyway.The content and also images will fade rather quickly, however in practice, that’s rarely an issue when you are actually only attempting to check the present time. If there was one thing to limit the functionality on this, it would certainly must be actually the meter-long piece of component that you’ve come to keep pressing and also drawing by means of the mechanism– yet it is actually a cost our team’re willing to pay for.Yearn for some of your own?
[Henner] has discussed every one of the resource code for the wearable, coming from the OpenSCAD writings to create the 3D printed enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that operates the program. The LED collection itself is really a derivative of his Glowxels project, which costs having a look at if you ‘d like to create this concept on a much bigger scale.This isn’t the very first time our experts’ve found this procedure made use of for this kind of thing, however it may be the absolute most sleek version of the idea our experts have actually viewed until now.