Code snippets, ideas and events from IT related projects

by Robert Gawron

Archive for March, 2010

Coating things with copper by using galvanisation

Abstract

Galvanization is a simple way to coating metal things with copper, today I will present you, how to do that at home, without expensive equipment. You can use it to protect trinkets from corrosion or for decoration. This process is also common in the industry (for various of materials, methods and cases). You may want to visit Wikipedia to get more information about galvanization.

view of covered nails view of covered coin

Above are some of the examples, that I made (the nail was covered about 6-7 years ago):

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Simple 32bit Intel Linux compiler, part 1

Summary

This compiler works with subset off l33tlang’s assembler and produces as an output binary file that can be executed on Intel386, 32bits compatible processors, on Linux platform. It’s written in C, in objective way.

Abilities

  • compiling procedures
  • usage of Linux interrupts (now only one is implemnebted)
  • artithmentic operations (now, only addition)
  • stack operations
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