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Interrupts allow the microcontroller to respond to an external signal, such as the change in state of a device, while performing another task. An interrupt pauses the sketch and implements the interrupt service routine (ISR), then the sketch continues from the point that it was interrupted.
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Cameron, N. (2019). Interrupts and Timed Events. In: Arduino Applied. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3960-5_20
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