Hi everyone. I am the author of the OpenSimpleLidar. If you have any questions about this project, you can ask them here.

Here is another my Lidar project: https://github.com/iliasam/OpenLIDAR

That project has a wiki: https://github.com/iliasam/OpenLIDAR/wiki

A big article in Russian about it: https://geektimes.ru/post/275442/