1. Try Lifting the USB’s ground on one side or the other.
2. The last faraday cage we use was likely steel, which can have enough resistance to pass radio frequency. Try aluminum faraday cage.
3. Use USB cable with ferrite bead like this one Dave purchased:

I have an electronics chassis I’ve recycled to try as the next faraday cage:

3. "The Neutron Club"

These people have operated a neutron producing fusor or fusion system.
(normally d-d fusion): 

          Richard Hull - 10e5 neutron mark 3/99
          Scott Little
          Joe Zambelli - Half mega mark 12/01
          Tom Ligon
          Michael Li - winner $75k Intel scholarship (fusor)
          Mike Amann
          Jon Rosenstiel - Mega neutron mark 10e6 11/02
          Gerardo Meiro - First non-US neutron Club member
          Phillip Fostini
          Carl Willis - advanced activation work
          Larry Leins - pulsed fusor work
          Craig Wallace - winner $1.5k Intel 2nd place (Fusor)
          Frank Sanns
          Brian McDermott
          Fergus Noble & Henry Hallam - first UK neutron members
          Adam Parker - winner of $10k Alabama scholarship in science
          Mark Langdon
          Thiago Olson
          Wayne Rodgers
          Eric Stroud
          Wilfried Heil & Noemi Zudor - Smallest fusor ~3" diameter
          Raymond Jimenez
          Alex & Ben Haylett - first to use heavy water electrolysis
          Steven Sesselmann - first Aussie fusion, New Star system design
          Andrew Seltzman
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          Utrecht University fusor group, poster is Benjamin Brenny
          Group includes: Sander Mann, Dick Abma, Thijs Krijger, Remco Van den
                          Dungen, Nivard Kagie
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          Bob Heil
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          Peninsula College - student group
          Ho Yee Hui, Derek Madison, Devon McMinn, Sarah Mangiameli
          Chris Milroy, Aaron Stoll, Jeff Zirul
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          Roman Radtke
          Louis Franzel
          Taylor Wilson - Youngest fusioneer - 14 years old.
          Thomas Rapp
          Tyler Christensen
          Ben Bartlett
          Doug Coulter & Bill Fain - first cylindrical fusor
          Matthew Honickman
          Jason Heidecker
          Mark Suppes

Anything you can design and spec (I’m talking schematic and mouser part numbers)…

I can purchase and build.

So if you ever think: “man, famulus should build  X right now”

Send me schematics and part numbers. Provided it’s pertinent to the research and within the budget… I will build it.

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Here is a my first schematic challenge:

I just purchased this trigatron for discharging the mega-capacitor:

Here is the schematic for it’s use.

Here is the challenge:

Design a modern version of the triggering circuit shown in this schematic. ie, without using a “break-modulator valve”.

Nerd Nite NYC

Galapagos Art Space DUMBO 16 Main Street in DUMBO Brooklyn (F train to York St. or A/C train to High St.)

Friday January 15, 2009 at 7pm (Quizo) and 8:15pm (regular Nerd Nite)

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Fusing the Atom and Living to Tell

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Description: We have built an open source nuclear fusion reactor and fused the atom. This is the story of a remarkable fusion device called the Farnsworth Fusor and its successor, the Bussard Reactor (aka. Polywell). The Bussard Reactor holds the promise of clean cheap abundant energy from fusion. This is a story of research on the edge.

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Bio: Famulus is an entrepreneur, hacker, and rails developer. In 2008 he learned of the Bussard fusion reactor and left the software world to try and build a working Bussard Reactor.

October 30-31, 2009 in Nashville TN.

Talking about amateur nuclear fusion and prometheus fusion perfection.

Other ToorCamp subjects are more ambitious. A Brooklyn, N.Y., resident who only goes by his pseudonym, famulus, gives an unscheduled talk about his quest to build an open-source Bussard fusion reactor, which he says has the potential to create “cheap, clean, abundant energy.” He has been working on the project for about a year, documenting his efforts on prometheusfusionperfection.com.

FYI, this article incorrectly names me as Samulus. It should be famulus.

Other

ToorCamp subjects are more ambitious. A Brooklyn, N.Y., resident who only goes by his pseudonym, Samulus, gives an unscheduled talk about his quest to build an open-source Bussard fusion reactor, which he says has the potential to create “cheap, clean, abundant energy.” He has been working on the project for about a year, documenting his efforts on prometheusfusionperfection.

Amateur Nuclear Fusion

Very cool! Thank you Raymond Jimenez.

Photo by Divide via NYCResistor

The decawell source code is available on github.