Periscope

This is the future of micromouse development.

The periscope feature allows the user to see exactly what is going on inside your micromouse. Enjoy.

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Problem

The current issue with the development of the micromouse is in debugging the maze-solving algorithm in the 
hardware. Aside from being time-consuming, it is confusing to diagnose an issue from a conglomerate stream 
of repetitive output or LED status lights. 

Solution

Streamline a protocol between the simulator and the micromouse to effectively animate the stream of data 
in a virtual environment. Along with animating the data, the user can enter a command in a text box to 
send to the micromouse and then view the response in a terminal-style serial monitor.

Architecture

A periscope packet is sent from the micromouse to the simulator via a serial port connection i.e. Bluetooth 
serial port cu.HC-06-DevB. Then, once the simulator parses the periscope packet the virtual mouse renders 
an updated environment. Concurrently, a serial monitor is printing, in plain text, the data being recieved
from the micromouse.

Periscope Protocol:

Protocol (text-based):

send("Periscope: (16x16)(15,0)(north)(up)\n");

Periscope Protocol (byte-based): (inactive)

Serial Monitor Architecture

This is how your real-time data gets outputted to a terminal style serial monitor.