It always seemed like being a mail carrier was one of the few modern-day occupations that let you stay active. These mail jumpers, however, are next level! Fun story from Atlas Obscura.
The town is the first and only one in the United States where jumpers deliver mail from a passenger-carrying mailboat, a tradition that began in 1916 when the primitive roads were too difficult to traverse. It has continued uninterrupted, May through September, for the last 105 years.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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Fun fact, dungeons and dragons was invented in Lake Geneva. Right infront of where these mail boats launch from is a engraving of a D20 commemorating Gary Gygax. Also there’s a huuuggeee D20 convention held intown every year called ‘GaryCon’ where tonnnnns of people make the ‘pilgrimage’ to sit in a old Playboy Club Hotel and campaign for a weekend. It’s pretty rad 🙂
Fun fact, dungeons and dragons was invented in Lake Geneva. Right infront of where these mail boats launch from is a engraving of a D20 commemorating Gary Gygax. Also there’s a huuuggeee D20 convention held intown every year called ‘GaryCon’ where tonnnnns of people make the ‘pilgrimage’ to sit in a old Playboy Club Hotel and campaign for a weekend. It’s pretty rad 🙂