diff --git a/utils/build.py b/utils/build.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import argparse
+import os
+import platform
+import random
+import re
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod, abstractproperty
+from copy import deepcopy
+from enum import Enum
+from functools import lru_cache
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional
+from uuid import uuid4
+
+try:
+    from tqdm import tqdm
+except ModuleNotFoundError:
+
+    def tqdm(iterable, *args, **kwargs):
+        return iterable
+
+    if os.isatty(sys.stdout.fileno()) and random.randint(0, 10) <= 1:
+        print('TIP: run `pip install -m tqdm` to get a nice progress bar')
+
+project_root = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+dependencies_dir = project_root / '.dependencies'
+
+
+def bootstrap(*args, interactive=False, check=False):
+    """Run the bootstrap script."""
+    bootstrap_py = project_root / 'utils' / 'bootstrap.py'
+    result = subprocess.run([sys.executable, str(bootstrap_py)] + list(args),
+                            check=False,
+                            encoding='utf-8',
+                            stdout=None if interactive else subprocess.PIPE,
+                            stderr=None if interactive else subprocess.PIPE)
+    return result
+
+
+def project_version():
+    """Return current project version (e. g. "3.13.0")"""
+    with open(project_root / 'version.txt', 'r') as f:
+        return f.read().strip()
+
+
+@lru_cache()
+def get_dependency(name):
+    install_dir = Path(
+        bootstrap('--print-dependency-directory', name,
+                  check=True).stdout.strip())
+    suffix = '.exe' if platform.system() == 'Windows' else ''
+    if name == 'ninja':
+        return install_dir / ('ninja' + suffix)
+    elif name == 'cmake':
+        return install_dir / 'bin' / ('cmake' + suffix)
+    else:
+        return install_dir
+
+
+class BuildType(Enum):
+    """Represents the -DCONFIG CMake option."""
+
+    DEBUG = 'DEBUG'
+    RELEASE = 'RELEASE'
+
+
+class BuildConfiguration(ABC):
+    @abstractmethod
+    def get_cmake_cache_entries(self):
+        """Convert the build configuration to CMake cache entries."""
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def get_cmake_flags(self, build_dir: Path) -> List[str]:
+        """Return all CMake command-line flags required to build this configuration."""
+
+    @abstractproperty
+    def name(self):
+        """Name of the configuration."""
+
+    def __hash__(self):
+        return hash(self.name)
+
+
+class FirmwareBuildConfiguration(BuildConfiguration):
+    def __init__(self,
+                 build_type: BuildType,
+                 toolchain: Path = None,
+                 generator: str = None,
+                 version_suffix: str = None,
+                 version_suffix_short: str = None,
+                 custom_entries: List[str] = None):
+        self.build_type = build_type
+        self.toolchain = toolchain or FirmwareBuildConfiguration.default_toolchain(
+        )
+        self.generator = generator
+        self.version_suffix = version_suffix
+        self.version_suffix_short = version_suffix_short
+        self.custom_entries = custom_entries or []
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def default_toolchain() -> Path:
+        return Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / 'cmake/AvrGcc.cmake'
+
+    def get_cmake_cache_entries(self):
+        entries = []
+        if self.generator.lower() == 'ninja':
+            entries.append(('CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM', 'FILEPATH',
+                            str(get_dependency('ninja'))))
+        entries.extend([
+            ('CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM', 'FILEPATH', str(get_dependency('ninja'))),
+            ('CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE', 'FILEPATH', str(self.toolchain)),
+            ('AVR_TOOLCHAIN_DIR', 'DIRPATH', str(get_dependency('avr-gcc'))),
+            ('CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE', 'STRING', self.build_type.value.title()),
+            ('PROJECT_VERSION_HASH', 'STRING', self.version_suffix or ''),
+            ('PROJECT_VERSION_SUFFIX_SHORT', 'STRING',
+             self.version_suffix_short or ''),
+        ])
+        entries.extend(self.custom_entries)
+        return entries
+
+    def get_cmake_flags(self, build_dir: Path) -> List[str]:
+        cache_entries = self.get_cmake_cache_entries()
+        flags = ['-D{}:{}={}'.format(*entry) for entry in cache_entries]
+        flags += ['-G', self.generator or 'Ninja']
+        flags += ['-S', str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent)]
+        flags += ['-B', str(build_dir)]
+        return flags
+
+    @property
+    def name(self):
+        components = [
+            self.build_type.value,
+        ]
+        return '_'.join(components)
+
+
+class BuildResult:
+    """Represents a result of an attempt to build the project."""
+
+    def __init__(self, config_returncode: int, build_returncode: Optional[int],
+                 stdout: Path, stderr: Path, products: List[Path]):
+        self.config_returncode = config_returncode
+        self.build_returncode = build_returncode
+        self.stdout = stdout
+        self.stderr = stderr
+        self.products = products
+
+    @property
+    def configuration_failed(self):
+        return self.config_returncode != 0
+
+    @property
+    def build_failed(self):
+        return self.build_returncode != 0 and self.build_returncode is not None
+
+    @property
+    def is_failure(self):
+        return self.configuration_failed or self.build_failed
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return '<BuildResult config={self.config_returncode} build={self.build_returncode}>'.format(
+            self=self)
+
+
+def build(configuration: BuildConfiguration,
+          build_dir: Path,
+          configure_only=False,
+          output_to_file=True) -> BuildResult:
+    """Build a project with a single configuration."""
+    flags = configuration.get_cmake_flags(build_dir=build_dir)
+
+    # create the build directory
+    build_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    products = []
+
+    if output_to_file:
+        # stdout and stderr are saved to a file in the build directory
+        stdout_path = build_dir / 'stdout.txt'
+        stderr_path = build_dir / 'stderr.txt'
+        stdout = open(stdout_path, 'w')
+        stderr = open(stderr_path, 'w')
+    else:
+        stdout_path, stderr_path = None, None
+        stdout, stderr = None, None
+
+    # prepare the build
+    config_process = subprocess.run([str(get_dependency('cmake'))] + flags,
+                                    stdout=stdout,
+                                    stderr=stderr,
+                                    check=False)
+    if not configure_only and config_process.returncode == 0:
+        cmd = [
+            str(get_dependency('cmake')), '--build',
+            str(build_dir), '--config',
+            configuration.build_type.value.lower()
+        ]
+        build_process = subprocess.run(cmd,
+                                       stdout=stdout,
+                                       stderr=stderr,
+                                       check=False)
+        build_returncode = build_process.returncode
+        products.extend(build_dir / fname for fname in [
+            'firmware', 'firmware.bin', 'firmware.bbf', 'firmware.dfu',
+            'firmware.map'
+        ] if (build_dir / fname).exists())
+    else:
+        build_returncode = None
+
+    if stdout:
+        stdout.close()
+    if stderr:
+        stderr.close()
+
+    # collect the result and return
+    return BuildResult(config_returncode=config_process.returncode,
+                       build_returncode=build_returncode,
+                       stdout=stdout_path,
+                       stderr=stderr_path,
+                       products=products)
+
+
+def store_products(products: List[Path], build_config: BuildConfiguration,
+                   products_dir: Path):
+    """Copy build products to a shared products directory."""
+    products_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    for product in products:
+        is_firmware = isinstance(build_config, FirmwareBuildConfiguration)
+        has_custom_suffix = is_firmware and (build_config.version_suffix !=
+                                             '<auto>')
+        if has_custom_suffix:
+            version = project_version()
+            name = build_config.name.lower(
+            ) + '_' + version + build_config.version_suffix
+        else:
+            name = build_config.name.lower()
+        destination = products_dir / (name + product.suffix)
+        shutil.copy(product, destination)
+
+
+def list_of(EnumType):
+    """Create an argument-parser for comma-separated list of values of some Enum subclass."""
+
+    def convert(val):
+        if val == '':
+            return []
+        values = [p.lower() for p in val.split(',')]
+        if 'all' in values:
+            return list(EnumType)
+        else:
+            return [EnumType(v.upper()) for v in values]
+
+    convert.__name__ = EnumType.__name__
+    return convert
+
+
+def cmake_cache_entry(arg):
+    match = re.fullmatch(r'(.*):(.*)=(.*)', arg)
+    if not match:
+        raise ValueError('invalid cmake entry; must be <NAME>:<TYPE>=<VALUE>')
+    return (match.group(1), match.group(2), match.group(3))
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    # yapf: disable
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--build-type',
+        type=list_of(BuildType),
+        default='release',
+        help=('Build type (debug or release; default: release; '
+              'default for --generate-cproject: debug,release).'))
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--version-suffix',
+        type=str,
+        default='<auto>',
+        help='Version suffix (e.g. -BETA+1035.PR111.B4)')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--version-suffix-short',
+        type=str,
+        default='<auto>',
+        help='Version suffix (e.g. +1035)')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--final',
+        action='store_true',
+        help='Set\'s --version-suffix and --version-suffix-short to empty string.')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--build-dir',
+        type=Path,
+        help='Specify a custom build directory to be used.')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--products-dir',
+        type=Path,
+        help='Directory to store built firmware (default: <build-dir>/products).')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '-G', '--generator',
+        type=str,
+        default='Ninja',
+        help='Generator to be used by CMake (default=Ninja).')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--toolchain',
+        type=Path,
+        help='Path to a CMake toolchain file to be used.')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--no-build',
+        action='store_true',
+        help='Do not build, configure the build only.'
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--no-store-output',
+        action='store_false',
+        help='Do not write build output to files - print it to console instead.'
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '-D', '--cmake-def',
+        action='append', type=cmake_cache_entry,
+        help='Custom CMake cache entries (e.g. -DCUSTOM_COMPILE_OPTIONS:STRING=-Werror)'
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
+    # yapf: enable
+
+    build_dir_root = args.build_dir or Path(
+        __file__).resolve().parent.parent / 'build'
+    products_dir_root = args.products_dir or (build_dir_root / 'products')
+
+    if args.final:
+        args.version_suffix = ''
+        args.version_suffix_short = ''
+
+    # Check all dependencis are installed
+    if bootstrap(interactive=True).returncode != 0:
+        print('bootstrap.py failed.')
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    # prepare configurations
+    configurations = [
+        FirmwareBuildConfiguration(
+            build_type=build_type,
+            version_suffix=args.version_suffix,
+            version_suffix_short=args.version_suffix_short,
+            generator=args.generator,
+            custom_entries=args.cmake_def) for build_type in args.build_type
+    ]
+
+    # build everything
+    configurations_iter = tqdm(configurations)
+    results: Dict[BuildConfiguration, BuildResult] = dict()
+    for configuration in configurations_iter:
+        build_dir = build_dir_root / configuration.name.lower()
+        description = 'Building ' + configuration.name.lower()
+        if hasattr(configurations_iter, 'set_description'):
+            configurations_iter.set_description(description)
+        else:
+            print(description)
+        result = build(configuration,
+                       build_dir=build_dir,
+                       configure_only=args.no_build,
+                       output_to_file=args.no_store_output is not False)
+        store_products(result.products, configuration, products_dir_root)
+        results[configuration] = result
+
+    # print results
+    print()
+    print('Building finished: {} success, {} failure(s).'.format(
+        sum(1 for result in results.values() if not result.is_failure),
+        sum(1 for result in results.values() if result.is_failure)))
+    failure = False
+    max_configname_len = max(len(config.name) for config in results)
+    for config, result in results.items():
+        if result.configuration_failed:
+            status = 'project configuration FAILED'
+            failure = True
+        elif result.build_failed:
+            status = 'build FAILED'
+            failure = True
+        else:
+            status = 'SUCCESS'
+
+        print(' {} {}'.format(
+            config.name.lower().ljust(max_configname_len, ' '), status))
+    if failure:
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()