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.

Architecture

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 advantages 
and disadvantages.  

Protocol (text-based):

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

Protocol (byte-based):

Example