Color codes for new versions of anything?

[Kevin Sevcik]

You're in FIRST. I say use the resistor color code that'll get you 100 codes just using two strips.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

You're in FIRST. I say use the resistor color code that'll get you 100 codes just using two strips.

Actually, that may just work.. Thanks Kevin!


Here I go being picky again.. but.. from the site.

Black is also easy to remember as zero because of the nothingness common to both.

I thought black was a combination of all the colors, and white was nothing?
Or, did I get that mixed up? <more than likely, the latter...>

[Kevin Sevcik]

Semantics, I'm sure. It all depends on if you're talking about light or pigments.

With light, white is a mixture of all the colors of light, black is an absence of light.

With pigments, black is a mixture of all the colors of pigments (mostly), white is theoretically an absence of pigments.

The pigments one isn't as straightforward as the light one cause you actually have to have something in the paint to make it "white" so white is still a pigment. But mostly that's it.

Anyways, I'm gonna get on memorizing those color codes so I can confuse the kids I'll be mentoring for programming and controls. And hopefully distract them from the fact that I'm only a few steps ahead of them in learning the system.

[Warren Boudreau]

You can always use the visible light spectrum. ROYGBIV. Then you'll have a whole rainbow of music.

[nathanielreindl]

Originally Posted by Warren Boudreau

You can always use the visible light spectrum. ROYGBIV. Then you'll have a whole rainbow of music.

The resistor color code is a superset of that with values to correspond to digits 0-9. Black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white.

You'll have a rainbow of music with the resistor colorcode nonetheless.