diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 483356e..88a84e5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__debug_bin
+build.sh
diff --git a/.gitpod.Dockerfile b/.gitpod.Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f0dd6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitpod.Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# same as https://github.com/bcmi-labs/arduino-editor/blob/master/Dockerfile
+FROM gitpod/workspace-full
+
+USER root
+RUN apt-get update -q --fix-missing && \
+    apt-get install -y -q software-properties-common && \
+    apt-get install -y -q --no-install-recommends \
+    build-essential \
+    libssl-dev \
+    golang-go \
+    libxkbfile-dev
+
+RUN set -ex && \
+    tmpdir=$(mktemp -d) && \
+    curl -L -o $tmpdir/protoc.zip https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v3.6.1/protoc-3.6.1-linux-x86_64.zip && \
+    mkdir -p /usr/lib/protoc && cd /usr/lib/protoc && unzip $tmpdir/protoc.zip && \
+    chmod -R 755 /usr/lib/protoc/include/google && \
+    ln -s /usr/lib/protoc/bin/* /usr/bin && \
+    rm $tmpdir/protoc.zip
diff --git a/.gitpod.setup.sh b/.gitpod.setup.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..942f0ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitpod.setup.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -euxo pipefail
+
+echo go build -o /workspace/arduino-editor/arduino-ide-extension/build/arduino-language-server > /workspace/arduino-language-server/build.sh
+chmod +x /workspace/arduino-language-server/build.sh
+
+cd /workspace
+git clone https://github.com/bcmi-labs/arduino-editor
+cd arduino-editor
+yarn
+
+echo "start an Arduino IDE with: yarn --cwd /workspace/arduino-editor/browser-app start"
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diff --git a/.gitpod.yml b/.gitpod.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9cf4a98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitpod.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+image:
+  file: .gitpod.Dockerfile
+
+tasks:
+- command: echo "please run .gitpod.setup.sh to get started (cannot checkout private repos before Gitpod is up and running)"
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