The first step required is to format the USB Flash drive for the native OS. On Windows 10 follow the steps below.

1. Insert the USB Flash drive into the computer
2. Launch the Disk Management tool
   1. Open the Start Menu
   2. Type in “Create and format hard disk”
   3. Click the “Create and format hard disk partitions” Control Panel result
      
      

      

3. Select the USB Flash drive in the list at the top
   
   

   

4. Right click on the USB Flash drive and select “Format…“
   
   

   

5. Type in a name for the drive
   
   

   

6. Select the “NTFS” option for the File System
   
   

   

7. Click the “OK” button
   
   

   

8. Click the “OK” button when it asks to continue
   
   

   

9. When it's finished close the Disk Management window

The next step is to add the applications that are needed.

1. Open an Explorer window and select the USB Flash drive
   
   

   

2. Create a folder called “Applications”
   
   

   

3. Download and install the Raspberry Pi Imager app
   1. Browse to https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/ and download the latest version
   2. Run the downloaded app
      
      

      

   3. Follow the prompts to install the app. At the end uncheck the option to “Run Raspberry Pi Imager” and click “Finish”
      
      

      

   4. Open another Explorer window and navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)
      
      

      

   5. Drag the Raspberry Pi Imager folder to the Applications folder on the USB Flash drive
      
      

      

4. Download and install the Win32-OpenSSH app
   1. Browse to https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH and download the latest version zip file under the “Releases” heading on the right side
   2. Open the downloaded file and select the Extract all icon on the Extract toolbar
      
      

      

   3. Change the path to the Applications folder on the USB Flash drive and click the “Extract” button
      
      

      

5. Download and install the Visual Studio Code app
   1. Browse to https://code.visualstudio.com and download the latest version zip file under the “Other platforms” link
   2. Open the downloaded file and select the Extract all icon on the Extract toolbar
      
      

      

   3. Change the path to a Visual Studio Code subfolder of the Applications folder on the USB Flash drive and click the “Extract” button
      
      

      

   4. Create a new folder named “data” in the Visual Studio Code folder on the USB Flash drive
      
      

      

6. Install required extensions in Visual Studio Code
   1. Open the Code app from the Visual Studio Code folder on the USB Flash drive
   2. Click on the extensions icon
      
      

      

   3. Type “Python” in the search field
      
      

      

   4. Click the “Install” button for the Python extension
      
      

      

   5. Type “C/C++” in the search field
      
      

      

   6. Click the “Install” button for the C/C++ extension
      
      

      

   7. Type “Remote-SSH” in the search field
      
      

      

   8. Click the “Install” button for the Remote - SSH extension
      
      

      

   9. Close Visual Studio Code
7. Download and install the PuTTY app
   1. Browse to https://jakub.kotrla.net/putty/ and download the latest version zip file at the bottom of the page
   2. Open the downloaded file and select the Extract all icon on the Extract toolbar
      
      

      

   3. Change the path to a PuTTY subfolder of the Applications folder on the USB Flash drive and click the “Extract” button
      
      

      

8. Create a batch file to setup paths for Visual Studio Code
   1. Open the Code app from the Visual Studio Code folder on the USB Flash drive
   2. Select File→New File
      
      

      

   3. Enter the following text
      
      

      SET PATH=%~dp0\OpenSSH-Win64;%~dp0\"Visual Studio Code";%PATH%
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   4. Select File→Save As…
      
      

      

   5. Browse to the “Applications” folder on the USB Flash drive, enter “VSCode.cmd” for the File name: and click Save
      
      

      

   6. Close Visual Studio Code
9. Download and install the Win32DiskImager app
   1. Browse to https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/files/Archive/ and download the latest version binary zip file
   2. Open the downloaded file and select the Extract all icon on the Extract toolbar
      
      

      

   3. Change the path to a Win32DiskImager subfolder of the Applications folder on the USB Flash drive and click the “Extract” button
      
      

      

1. Open Edge and browse to the Robot Club home page
2. Open an Explorer window and select the USB Flash drive
   
   

   

3. Right click in the Explorer window and select New→Shortcut
4. Select the web address at the top of the Edge window, copy it and paste it for the location of the item
   
   

   

5. Click the “Next” button
   
   

   

6. Enter “Robot Club” for the name of the shortcut
   
   

   

7. Click the “Finish” button