.Our team’re big fans of unique wristwatches listed here at Hackaday, so it failed to take long just before someone contacted our interest to the gloriously luminescent watch that [Henner Zeller] was actually using at this year’s Supercon.He contacts it the Glowtape, and also it uses a thick range of UV LEDs and also a lengthy strip of glow-in-the-dark material to show the time and also time, and also graphics and long strands of content drawn up horizontally to create an unplanned banner. It appeared sensational in person, with the vitalized locations on the tape radiant vibrantly during the evening celebrations in the back road.The text and pictures would certainly vanish relatively promptly, but virtual, that’s rarely an issue when you’re only attempting to check the present time. If there was one thing to restrict the practicality on this, it would must be actually the meter-long item of component that you’ve reached maintain pushing and also taking by means of the device– but it’s a price our team agree to pay for.Want some of your own?
[Henner] has actually discussed all of the resource code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD scripts to produce the 3D published enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that operates the series. The LED assortment itself is in fact a spin-off of his Glowxels task, which costs looking at if you want to create this principle on a much larger scale.This isn’t the very first time our experts’ve found this approach made use of for this example, yet it might be actually the absolute most sleek model of the principle our company’ve seen until now.