For Windows users

The installation of the tools is similar as for Ubuntu. You must install realterm as terminal emulator instead of minicom and you must install Python for Windows. Please install the stable version (3.7.3 at the time of writing). Then install the Python modules using pip (pip install PyQt5 ...)

PyQt5, pyserial, pyflakes, sip, qscintilla, esptool, pyparsing, pyinstaller, thonny, thonny-esp

With these you should be able to run uPyCraft and thonny. There is a Windows binary in the uPyCraft repository in the directory dist, which you may want to try,

When running uPyCraft for the first time, you must run it in administrator mode. Then click on "workspace" to define the directory where your micropython programs will be located. Once this is done, you may quit and re-run uPyCraft as normal user.

To edit your micropython files you may use idle, which can be started with idle.bat located in your Python_installation_dir\lib\idlelib. Create a shortcut to easily access the the command.