.We’re big enthusiasts of unusual time-keepers listed below at Hackaday, so it failed to take lengthy before someone called our focus to the gloriously radiant wristwatch that [Henner Zeller] was wearing at this year’s Supercon.He calls it the Glowtape, and also it uses a heavy collection of UV LEDs and also a lengthy strip of glow-in-the-dark component to show the time and also time, and also pictures and long cords of text message drawn up flat to create an impromptu streamer. It appeared sensational personally, with the stimulated places on the strip glowing brightly during the course of the night festivities in the alleyway.The message and images will discolor reasonably promptly, however virtual, that is actually rarely a concern when you are actually just attempting to check the current time. If there was actually one thing to restrict the usefulness on this one, it will have to be the meter-long part of product that you have actually got to always keep driving and taking via the system– however it is actually a price our company agree to pay for.Prefer among your very own?
[Henner] has discussed all of the resource code for the wearable, coming from the OpenSCAD writings to generate the 3D imprinted enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that operates the program. The LED range on its own is actually a spin-off of his Glowxels task, which deserves checking out if you want to recreate this idea on a much bigger incrustation.This isn’t the very first time we have actually viewed this technique made use of for this example, but it might be actually one of the most compact model of the idea our team’ve viewed so far.