Progress: I was able to download some slightly questionable software from a Chinese website allowing me to find my serial port that my USB to TTL converter uses. So I stripped some wire and hooked up the transmit and receive ports on the converter to see if it would work, and my “test” did transmit and receive properly!
I then built a rough housing prototype out of simple paper and it what I didn’t even think of was how tall it was going to be. It is pretty tall for an attachment on the glasses and splitting it between the two sides won’t remedy that. It doesn’t appear to be too wide however I think splitting will ease the burden from one side to both sides of the user’s glasses.
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Issues: Mainly the communication with the converter to the range finder is somehow not working properly and I would love to get that figured out this week so I can move on to implementing code and the OLED screen. And of course the issue of the housing should be figured out once I build another prototype housing unit that is split between both sides of the user’s glasses.
Plan For The Week: Get the range finder working, start displaying on the OLED screen and get some Arduino code put up to communicate with both of them. Also build the other housing prototype to see the difference between the two.