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Building a task manager using threads

Despite a few drawbacks to using threads, they can be a very powerful tool for developers who understand how to use them in the context of a real-time embedded system. Let's take a look at how we can implement our railroad blinky LED application using threads. The first step to developing the application is to create our threads, just like how we created our tasks in the previous examples. In this case, though, there are several key modifications that are worth noting.

First, we need to import the threading module (_thread). Second, we need to define a thread as a regular function declaration. The difference here is that we treat each function like a separate application where we insert a while True