.Our team’re big followers of unusual clocks here at Hackaday, so it didn’t take lengthy prior to a person called our focus to the gloriously luminescent timepiece that [Henner Zeller] was using at this year’s Supercon.He phones it the Glowtape, and also it utilizes a thick range of UV LEDs and also a lengthy strip of glow-in-the-dark material to display the moment and also date, along with graphics as well as lengthy strings of message written out horizontally to produce an unscripted ensign. It looked amazing personally, with the invigorated locations on the tape beautiful vibrantly in the course of the night events in the alleyway.The content and also images would vanish reasonably rapidly, however in practice, that’s barely a complication when you’re only making an effort to inspect the existing opportunity. If there was one thing to restrict the practicality on this, it would have to be the meter-long item of product that you’ve reached keep pressing and also pulling by means of the mechanism– yet it is actually a price we agree to pay.Prefer one of your personal?
[Henner] has shared every one of the source code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD writings to produce the 3D published enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that manages the program. The LED range itself is in fact a sequel of his Glowxels job, which is worth taking a look at if you want to recreate this principle on a much bigger incrustation.This isn’t the very first time our company’ve seen this approach utilized for this example, however it may be the most compact variation of the principle our company’ve seen thus far.