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Difference Between Interrupts and Polling

Posted 2015-03-04 15:38:28 by Majenko

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If you're new to microcontrollers and you want a quick overview for using polling or interrupts in your sketch, Digilent has just the blog post for you! In this post, James explains the differences between using polling vs. interrupts to determine when an input (like a button press) has occurred.