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    Arduino: Attachinterrupt (Interrupt, Function, Mode)

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    The document discusses the Arduino attachInterrupt function, which specifies a function to call when an external interrupt occurs. It takes an interrupt number, function, and mode as parameters. The mode defines when the interrupt should trigger, such as on a pin becoming low, changing, rising, or falling. Inside the attached function, delay and millis may not work properly. Interrupts can help with timing problems and tasks like reading sensors. An example shows attaching a function to an interrupt on pin change.

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    The document discusses the Arduino attachInterrupt function, which specifies a function to call when an external interrupt occurs. It takes an interrupt number, function, and mode as parameters. The mode defines when the interrupt should trigger, such as on a pin becoming low, changing, rising, or falling. Inside the attached function, delay and millis may not work properly. Interrupts can help with timing problems and tasks like reading sensors. An example shows attaching a function to an interrupt on pin change.

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    The document discusses the Arduino attachInterrupt function, which specifies a function to call when an external interrupt occurs. It takes an interrupt number, function, and mode as parameters. The mode defines when the interrupt should trigger, such as on a pin becoming low, changing, rising, or falling. Inside the attached function, delay and millis may not work properly. Interrupts can help with timing problems and tasks like reading sensors. An example shows attaching a function to an interrupt on pin change.

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    Arduino: Attachinterrupt (Interrupt, Function, Mode)

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    attachInterrupt(interrupt, function, mode)


    Description

    Specifies a function to call when an external interrupt occurs. Replaces any previous function that was attached to the
    interrupt. Most Arduino boards have two external interrupts: numbers 0 (on digital pin 2) and 1 (on digital pin 3). The
    Arduino Mega has an additional four: numbers 2 (pin 21), 3 (pin 20), 4 (pin 19), and 5 (pin 18).

    Parameters

    interrupt: the number of the interrupt (int)

    function: the function to call when the interrupt occurs; this function must take no parameters and return nothing. This
    function is sometimes referred to as an interrupt service routine.

    mode defines when the interrupt should be triggered. Four contstants are predefined as valid values:

    LOW to trigger the interrupt whenever the pin is low,


    CHANGE to trigger the interrupt whenever the pin changes value
    RISING to trigger when the pin goes from low to high,
    FALLING for when the pin goes from high to low.

    Returns

    none

    Note

    Inside the attached function, delay() won't work and the value returned by millis() will not increment. Serial data received
    while in the function may be lost. You should declare as volatile any variables that you modify within the attached function.

    Using Interrupts

    Interrupts are useful for making things happen automatically in microcontroller programs, and can help solve timing problems.
    A good task for using an interrupt might be reading a rotary encoder, monitoring user input.

    If you wanted to insure that a program always caught the pulses from a rotary encoder, never missing a pulse, it would
    make it very tricky to write a program to do anything else, because the program would need to constantly poll the sensor
    lines for the encoder, in order to catch pulses when they occurred. Other sensors have a similar interface dynamic too, such
    as trying to read a sound sensor that is trying to catch a click, or an infrared slot sensor (photo-interrupter) trying to catch
    a coin drop. In all of these situations, using an interrupt can free the microcontroller to get some other work done while not
    missing the doorbell.

    Example

    int p in = 13;
    vola t ile i nt st ate = LO W;

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    Arduino - AttachInterrupt 10/19/09 11:37 AM

    void set up ()
    {
    pi n Mod e( pin , OUTP UT);
    at t ach In ter ru pt(0 , bl ink, CHANG E);
    }

    void loo p( )
    {
    di g ita lW rit e( pin, sta te);
    }

    void bli nk ()
    {
    st a te = !st at e;
    }

    See also

    detachInterrupt

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