For newcomers Zephyr can be tough to get started with. Python installations, environment variables, toolchains and more amplify the confusion! Fortunately if you use VSCode it's easier to get started with Zephyr using Zephyr Tools by Circuit Dojo. Recently released as open source with the Apache 2.0 license, the goal of these tools is to make it easier for anyone in the Zephyr community to get their projects off the ground no matter what toolchain or architecture. In this talk we'll talk about: * Initializing the extension * Starting a project from scratch * Fetching dependencies * Building, flashing and viewing console output