Pi 5 AI Referee Robot Kit – Automated Offside & Foul Detection for Table Football

Every part needed, pre-tested for compatibility, with an AI build companion trained on this exact project. Shipped from Bengaluru in 3-5 days.

Table football matches often end in arguments about offside calls, ball tracking, or missed goals. This kit turns your football table into a smart arena where a Pi 5 runs YOLOv8 to track the ball and player positions in real time, automatically detecting offsides and updating scores with zero human bias. It’s a complete AI referee system you build, train, and customise yourself.

What You'll Build

You’ll assemble a standalone referee console: a Pi 5 with a Pi Camera Module 3 Wide overlooking the pitch, a 7-inch HDMI display showing live video feed with bounding boxes, an offside alert banner, and a persistent scoreboard. The system captures frames, runs a lightweight YOLOv8 model on the NPU, maps the field using a perspective transform, and triggers offside flags when attackers breach the last defender line before the ball.

What You'll Learn

• Deploy and fine-tune a YOLOv8 object detection model on the Raspberry Pi 5 AI accelerator
• Calibrate a wide-angle camera and apply perspective correction for precise field mapping
• Write real-time rule engines that interpret player-ball coordinate relationships for football rules
• Build an interactive touchscreen UI that overlays match stats, stopwatch, and reset controls

Kit Contents

Why Buy This Kit Instead of Sourcing Parts Separately

Who This Kit Is For

This kit is designed for intermediate makers: CBSE Class 11–12 students diving into AI electives, B.Tech ECE/EEE final-year students building a live sports analytics project, Smart India Hackathon teams prototyping computer vision solutions, and ATL Tinkering Lab coordinators who want a ready-made, real-world AI robotics challenge. If you’ve tinkered with a Pi before and want to level up into edge AI, this is your next build.

Built and Backed by Compoden

Every Compoden kit ships with an AI build companion trained on this exact project — accessible via a QR code on the box, with WhatsApp and email backup. We've spent 10 years building projects for makers, schools, and institutions across India. If a part fails because of a manufacturing defect, replace it free within 7 days.