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Building a Clean, Modular 3D-Printed Battery Box Using a $3 Harbor Freight Ammo Can

Building a Clean, Modular 3D-Printed Battery Box Using a $3 Harbor Freight Ammo Can

by Allen Mowery | Apr 16, 2026 | How-to, Radio

I had a couple of 7Ah LiFePO4 batteries sitting on the shelf doing nothing, so I finally got around to building them some proper smaller boxes. These aren’t meant to be monster power stations — they’re compact, lightweight, and useful for a bunch of...
Jailbreaking the Baofeng MP31 for GMRS and Ham Radio Use

Jailbreaking the Baofeng MP31 for GMRS and Ham Radio Use

by Allen Mowery | Feb 17, 2026 | How-to, Radio

How to unlock the Baofeng MP31 GMRS radio and unleash(ish) its potential The Baofeng MP31 is not an exceptional radio. It’s better than some of the original BF-777s radios from a decade ago, sure. But that’s a bit like kissing your cousin instead of...

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Ep. 87 — Seventeen Syllables of Suffering: The Haiku Scam

Ep. 87 — Seventeen Syllables of Suffering: The Haiku Scam

Tired of people calling 17 syllables “genius”? So am I.

In this brutally honest, occasionally unhinged episode of Perfectly Poetic, Allen Mowery finally unleashes his pent-up frustration about the most overrated poetic form of all time: the haiku. From childhood worksheet trauma to seasonal name-dropping, syllable policing, AI-generated nonsense, and the myth of Bashō’s frog — no stone (or smooth river pebble) is left unskipped.

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