Building an AI Smart Camera Station with ESP32-CAM | FastAPI + SQLite | Robotics Project #1

Building my *AI Smart Camera Station* from the ground up! 🤖📷 In this project, I’m taking an ESP32-CAM beyond basic Arduino experiments and building the foundations of a real connected robotics system. In this video, I explain what I’ve built so far, including: • ESP32-CAM project architecture • FastAPI backend • REST API endpoints • Pydantic data validation • SQLAlchemy + SQLite database • Device registration and management • ESP32 telemetry storage • Telemetry retrieval and pagination • Backend architecture and data flow The bigger goal is to evolve this into an **AI-powered autonomous robotics platform**, eventually adding computer vision, object detection, remote control, real-time dashboards, and autonomous behavior. This is **Level 1 of my AI Robotics learning journey**, where the focus is on understanding how all the pieces work together instead of blindly copying code. More experiments, more robots, and inevitably more bugs coming. #ESP32 #ESP32CAM #AI #Robotics #FastAPI #Python #IoT #EmbeddedSystems #ComputerVision #Arduino #SQLite #AIProjects