.Our team’re big followers of unique clocks listed here at Hackaday, so it really did not take long prior to a person called our attention to the gloriously luminous timepiece that [Henner Zeller] was actually putting on at this year’s Supercon.He contacts it the Glowtape, and also it utilizes a thick selection of UV LEDs and a long strip of glow-in-the-dark material to show the amount of time as well as date, in addition to images and also long strings of message written out horizontally to develop an unscripted banner. It appeared sensational personally, with the invigorated regions on the tape glowing vibrantly throughout the night festivities in the back road.The message and graphics would certainly vanish rather quickly, however virtual, that is actually rarely an issue when you’re only trying to inspect the existing time. If there was actually something to limit the functionality on this set, it would must be the meter-long part of component that you’ve got to maintain pushing and also drawing via the system– but it is actually a price our company’re willing to pay out.Wish among your very own?
[Henner] has shared each of the source code for the wearable, coming from the OpenSCAD writings to create the 3D imprinted enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that manages the program. The LED selection itself is really a spin-off of his Glowxels project, which deserves taking a look at if you want to create this principle on a much larger scale.This isn’t the first time our company’ve seen this technique made use of for this example, yet it might be actually the most portable version of the principle our experts’ve observed so far.