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Easier, but more expensive. In the short term that's fine, but in the long term I'd like to explore other options.

That's a good point about the coating, I did not notice an especial excess of activity around the edges of the foil. That said, whatever it is, it does indeed seem to prevent the copper from tarnishing. Perhaps more investigation is necessary. In any case the suggestion about getting new...

Thanks for the recommendations. I had not heard the term 'shim stock' before, which should make getting material much easier. What I've done so far has just been with ordinary 1.5V AA-batteries, which is plenty for the fairly small-scale work I'm doing. I've gotten some conflicting information...

I'm looking to do data transfer from a device I'm designing to and from a computer, in the short term for personal use, but hopefully something that can be made more portable later on. USB seems the obvious way to go for this, but while the data from the device is fine in analogue, the data to...

I've been looking into information about doing this, but the specificity of my question makes it difficult to effectively research. I want to take metal foil, preferably something easy to find online or in a store as 36-gauge (.005") or thinner, though not thinner than typical household...