ESP-IDF v6 in VS Code: Blink (and debug) on the ESP32-S3

ESP-IDF v6 dropped back in March and the GitHub releases page is already showing v6.0.1 - so I figured it was time to stop hiding in the v5.x cave and actually try it out. This is a nice gentle introduction. We’ll install the IDF, wire it up to VS Code, build the classic Blink example for an ESP32-S3, then start poking at menuconfig to do the things you can’t easily do from the Arduino IDE.…