Hailo Hackathon Projects are now available in our GitHub repository
Hey Hailo Community! 
We’re thrilled to share the amazing projects that came out of our third annual Hailo Hackathon! Over 24 hours, teams at Hailo worked intensively to create innovative edge AI applications using the Hailo AI HAT (26TOPS) on the Raspberry Pi 5. But these projects aren’t just for us, they’re for you, our community!
All the projects from the hackathon are now open and available in our GitHub repository as part of our growing collection of community projects.
You can find the projects in our Community Projects.
Note: Some of the projects are built to work only with the 26 TOPS Hailo AI HAT+.
With these projects, we open our GitHub repository to the community, inviting you to explore, learn, and contribute. We have many Pull Requests from the community and would love to see more. To ensure our examples are tested and working, we must be strict about the quality of the code and documentation in our repository. This makes it harder to approve PRs to the main code base. To allow you to share your work with the community, we have created a new folder in our repository called community_projects. This is where you can share your projects with the community and showcase enhancements to our examples. To add your project to the repository, please follow the instructions in the How to Add a Community Project guide.
Showcase your projects, share your feedback, and contribute to the community projects. We can’t wait to see what you create! 
Check out our Hackathon video
Hackathon Winners
1st Place: TAILO – AI-Powered Smart Pet Companion
Project video:
TAILO is a smart AI-driven pet companion that keeps pets happy, active, and monitored through tracking and interactive play.
2nd Place: TEMPO – AI-Generated Music Based on Heart Rate
Project video:
TEMPO brings biofeedback AI music generation to the edge, dynamically creating music based on heart rate.
3rd Place: AD GENIE – Personalized Advertisement
Project video:
AD GENIE transforms public advertising with real-time, AI-powered outfit-based content recommendations.
It uses CLIP to get the user’s style and recommend the outfits that are available in the store.
Additional Notable Projects
Dynamic Captioning
The team enabled Image captioning with Florence2 on Hailo8 (26TOPS).
Not all the pipeline is accelerated on Hailo however porting a big part of it allows for a major speed up.
The latent space is monitored and caption is updated only when the scene changes.
Note: This project is built to work only with the 26 TOPS Hailo AI HAT+. If you want us to port it to the Hailo8L, please let us know.
Note: There is a known issue with collisions in the OpenCV and QT versions. To fix it, run pip uninstall opencv-python in the virtual environment.
Project video:
NavigAItor
A robot that navigates autonomously using visual landmarks, with no need for GPS or gyros. The matching algorithm can be used for localization and navigation based on a single camera. If you want to see this project move forward, let us know. Or even better, join the effort and share your code. 
Project video:
Real time AI Frames Match:
BAIby Monitor
A smart baby monitor detecting cries and activity with real-time alerts.
Project video:
ChessMate
A robotic chess system for fully automated game play.
Note: This project was running with a modified HailoRT version. If you want to see this project move forward, let us know.
Project video:
HailoGames (Sailted Fish)
An AI-powered Red Light, Green Light game using pose estimation.
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See also our blog post in our dev zone.
Original version: Hailo Hackathon 2025: Edge AI Innovative Ideas on Raspberry Pi