Keeping Binary States with Integers

With the help of a couple of Particle community forum topics, I've been able to piece together a simple way to keep state using the bits (0, 1) of an integer value. If you aren't familiar with binary bits in a byte (or an integer), you can read up in the Binary number Wikipedia article. However, I'll do a little explaining here, too! Be prepared, this is a little lengthy.

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