Spotted At Supercon: Glowtape Wearable Display

.Our team allow supporters of unique time-keepers below at Hackaday, so it failed to take long just before a person contacted our interest to the gloriously luminous wristwatch that [Henner Zeller] was actually wearing at this year’s Supercon.He calls it the Glowtape, and also it utilizes a dense selection of UV LEDs and a long strip of glow-in-the-dark product to display the moment and also time, along with graphics as well as long cords of message drawn up flat to create an unplanned banner. It looked sensational in person, along with the invigorated locations on the tape radiant vibrantly during the night celebrations in the alleyway.The content and graphics would vanish reasonably quickly, yet virtual, that’s rarely a concern when you are actually simply attempting to check out the present opportunity. If there was actually one thing to limit the functionality on this set, it will have to be the meter-long part of component that you have actually reached maintain pushing and taking through the mechanism– but it’s a rate we want to pay.Wish one of your personal?

[Henner] has actually shared each of the source code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD scripts to create the 3D imprinted enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that operates the series. The LED assortment itself is in fact a derivative of his Glowxels project, which costs browsing through if you want to create this concept on a much larger scale.This isn’t the very first time our company have actually observed this technique made use of for this kind of thing, but it might be actually one of the most sleek version of the principle our experts’ve seen up until now.