Periscope

This is the future of micromouse development.

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

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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.

Periscope Protocol

 I list two periscope protocols. The first is a simple text-based protocol, and the second is a more sophisticated byte-based protocol. 
 Neither is better than the other but both come with their strength and weakness.  

text-based:

Periscope: (3x3)(3,0)(north)(up)

byte-based:

[ preamble | maze_width | maze_height | mouse_location | maze_wall_encoding | maze_cell_distance_encoding | end_of_transmission ]

Example