George Mallingbury has taken a GPS serial device and an XLoBorg board (from PiBorg – it’s got an accelerometer on it) and attached them to his Pi. He’s then used some Python and SQL commands to record the jolts, jiggles and bumps caused by rough road surfaces. His results are really good and really show the number of pot holes he’s driven over. He’s provided all the source code (linked from his blog page) so take a look here.

Thanks to PiBorg for spotting this and putting it on Facebook!