Spotted At Supercon: Glowtape Wearable Display

.Our company’re big fans of uncommon time-keepers here at Hackaday, so it failed to take long just before a person called our interest to the gloriously bright wristwatch that [Henner Zeller] was using at this year’s Supercon.He phones it the Glowtape, and also it utilizes a dense array of UV LEDs as well as a lengthy bit of glow-in-the-dark material to show the amount of time as well as day, and also photos and also lengthy strings of content written out flat to generate an unplanned ensign. It appeared wonderful personally, with the stimulated locations on the strip beautiful brightly during the course of the night celebrations in the alleyway.The content and also images would certainly vanish fairly promptly, but virtual, that’s rarely a concern when you’re merely trying to examine the present time. If there was actually one thing to restrict the usefulness on this set, it will have to be the meter-long item of material that you have actually got to keep driving and also drawing by means of the mechanism– but it is actually a rate our team want to pay out.Prefer one of your very own?

[Henner] has discussed every one of the source code for the wearable, from the OpenSCAD writings to produce the 3D imprinted enclosure to the C firmware for the RP2040 that operates the show. The LED range on its own is actually a derivative of his Glowxels job, which deserves taking a look at if you ‘d like to create this concept on a much larger incrustation.This isn’t the first time our team have actually seen this method utilized for this kind of thing, yet it might be actually one of the most sleek model of the concept our company have actually viewed so far.