Since we are unable to use interrupt enabled Port 1, we had to substitute the use of interrupts

with a technique known as polling. Polling is a process of manually checking values for changes
on a repetitive basis, as a part of the main program loop [XX]. There are pros and cons with
using either interreupts or polling for triggering. Also, the timing of our system allows us to use
polling without having any negative side effects, such as creating unacceptable system latencies.

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