Spotted At Supercon: Glowtape Wearable Display

.Our experts allow followers of unusual wristwatches listed here at Hackaday, so it didn’t take lengthy prior to somebody phoned our focus to the gloriously luminescent wristwatch that [Henner Zeller] was actually wearing at this year’s Supercon.He phones it the Glowtape, as well as it utilizes a dense variety of UV LEDs and also a long strip of glow-in-the-dark component to display the moment and day, along with photos and also lengthy strands of text message written out horizontally to make an impromptu ensign. It appeared sensational in person, along with the invigorated regions on the tape beautiful brightly during the course of the night festivities in the back road.The message as well as pictures would certainly vanish reasonably quickly, yet virtual, that is actually rarely an issue when you are actually merely attempting to inspect the current opportunity. If there was something to restrict the functionality on this set, it would certainly have to be the meter-long part of product that you have actually come to maintain driving and taking through the system– but it is actually a rate our team want to pay for.Really want one of your own?

[Henner] has discussed all of the resource code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD writings to create the 3D printed enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that runs the show. The LED assortment on its own is in fact a derivative of his Glowxels job, which costs having a look at if you would love to create this concept on a much bigger scale.This isn’t the first time we’ve found this technique utilized for this kind of thing, but it might be actually the most compact variation of the idea our team have actually viewed thus far.