diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..192fb0945ec5b35a6ec5a96bb39696fa3d617f64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.bz2
diff --git a/pack.bash b/pack.bash
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6ff0fc92f9fa013c3eb98b46fa5386a2170ade0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pack.bash
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/bash -ex
+
+VERSION=`grep version= platform.txt | sed 's/version=//g'`
+
+PWD=`pwd`
+FOLDERNAME=`basename $PWD`
+THIS_SCRIPT_NAME=`basename $0`
+
+rm -f samd-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+
+cd ..
+tar --transform "s|$FOLDERNAME|$VERSION|g"  --exclude=.git --exclude=.idea --exclude=$THIS_SCRIPT_NAME -cjf samd-$VERSION.tar.bz2 $FOLDERNAME
+cd -
+
+mv ../samd-$VERSION.tar.bz2 .
+