Programming ESP and other Arduino compatible chips using VS Code on MacOS

2020-12-28 4 min read anoff

When you are developing microcontroller based projects as a hobbyist you often end up with the Arduino ecosystem and might be tempted to use their IDE. This post will explain how you can develop, program & debug Arduino compatible devices using VS Code. Even though this post is written with a MacOS walk-through it should be valid for other operation systems as well.