Protothreads is a library written by Adam Dunkels to provide "thread-like" operations for embedded systems like bare-metal microcontrollers. In this entry we will be going over the theory of the Protothreads library, and showing some real world examples of how to use it with real results.

Protothreads website: http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/index.html

Protothreads can make complex state machines simpler to code and read, while not adding an entire operating system on top. ...

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