Color and colour are different spellings of the same word. Color is the preferred spelling in American English, and colour is preferred in all other main varieties of English. The distinction extends to all derivatives of the word. Colored, coloring, colorer, colorful, and discolorare the U.S. spellings, and coloured, colouring, colourer, colourful, and discolourare preferred outside the U.S.

History
Both spellings are many centuries old. Color, now regarded as the American spelling, in fact predates the United States by several centuries. In early use the spellings vied for ascendancy with several other spellings. Colur, culoure, and coolor, for instance, were all in the mix before the modern British spelling gained permanent prevalence in the 17th century.1 The American preference for color took hold in the middle 19th century thanks in large part to the conscious simplification of English spellings by people such as the lexicographer Noah Webster.

 

This thread will be about color and it's history

 

How 'bout Colorado...

 

Hola Ulti,

Could you post a brief description of your design, bitte?

Is it all random depending of the music only? Can the user program the color or colour?

Found it funny.

The housing looks that of commercial product.

 

Hola Ulti,

Could you post a brief description of your design, bitte?

Is it all random depending of the music only? Can the user program the color or colour?

Found it funny.

The housing looks that of commercial product.

The design was made by a friend of mine. He decided the shapes of the body and then I designed the circuit board and everything else.
The 'arm' is a curved piece of aluminium. The holes were milled. The 'Head' was bent with a special bent-machine (self-made). All the parts are weld or screwed together. All the circuit boards and also the display is on rails so if there are problems with the circuit or whatever you can just pull out the whole 'electronics'. The Motors work with Timing Belts with a specific translation. To prevent vibrations of the motors there are like rubber rings around the motors and screws. At the end we have paint all the parts black and screwed them together.

You can't programm the colors but there are various modes were you can change many settings. There are 5 modes and in each mode there are divers settings. For example there is the "color change mode" where you can change the speed and also switch the 'sound-active' mode on and off. Then there is a 'color-fade' mode where you can change the velocity. Then there is the "Sound-to-light mode " which is the most usefull mode. It's not only a mode where the colors change, there are also other effects like flash, fading and other stuff. And the 'master' mode is simmilar to the sound-to-light mode with the difference that it isn't sound controlled.

Here some photos:

A milled part for the sensors:


The front part :


The 'head':


The body:



More photos: