.We’re big followers of unusual timekeepers below at Hackaday, so it failed to take lengthy before a person phoned our interest to the gloriously luminescent timepiece that [Henner Zeller] was actually putting on at this year’s Supercon.He calls it the Glowtape, as well as it uses a dense variety of UV LEDs and also a long bit of glow-in-the-dark component to feature the moment as well as day, as well as images as well as long cords of text written out horizontally to generate an impromptu banner. It appeared sensational in person, along with the vitalized areas on the strip radiant brilliantly in the course of the evening festivities in the alleyway.The text message and also images would certainly fade reasonably swiftly, yet in practice, that is actually barely a trouble when you’re just trying to examine the present time. If there was something to confine the usefulness on this set, it would certainly need to be actually the meter-long item of material that you have actually reached always keep pressing as well as taking through the system– yet it’s a cost our experts’re willing to pay.Really want one of your own?
[Henner] has actually shared each one of the source code for the wearable, coming from the OpenSCAD writings to create the 3D printed enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that manages the show. The LED selection on its own is actually a derivative of his Glowxels project, which is worth taking a look at if you want to recreate this principle on a much bigger incrustation.This isn’t the first time our company’ve observed this technique utilized for this example, yet it might be the most compact variation of the concept our team have actually found thus far.