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/