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Eric and I spent the first half of this week redesigning our communication protocol, since we decided to use interrupts and sleep mode in the microcontroller. We changed the structure of our message words and the state machine of the tile. Once we had this solidified, we basically had to start the Python simulator from scratch. We added interrupt and sleep mode functionalities. We also improved the simulator from the previous one by adding the construct of a master tile with a play button.<\/span><\/p>\n A basic rundown of our new protocol is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n In each message word, we removed the \u201clive bit\u201d and instead required that each tile side should send some sort of message per word cycle. If a side does not have any messages queued up, it should just send an \u201cI am awake\u201d message. It is then the neighbor\u2019s responsibility to make sure that the tile is still alive.<\/span><\/p>\n Schedule<\/b><\/p>\n Unfortunately, we are still behind schedule since so many changes had to be made to the hardware and embedded protocol. I don\u2019t have any spring break plans this year, so I plan to use this time to catch up.<\/span><\/p>\n Goals for next week<\/b><\/p>\n Progress Eric and I spent the first half of this week redesigning our communication protocol, since we decided to use interrupts and sleep mode in the microcontroller. We changed the structure of our message words and the state machine of the tile. Once we had this solidified, we basically had to start the Python simulator from scratch. We added interrupt and sleep mode functionalities. We also improved the simulator from the previous one by adding the construct of a master…<\/p>\n\n
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