diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4713399..3bf03d9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /target
-/*/output.log
\ No newline at end of file
+/*/output.log
+*.bin
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5a45f58..d29716f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -320,6 +320,42 @@ dependencies = [
  "powerfmt",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "dfu-core"
+version = "0.4.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6c3fb34e94bedc8bbd76dfc9f6774896fadbbedac6108fa8a3c46a0125bde188"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "displaydoc",
+ "log",
+ "pretty-hex",
+ "thiserror",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "dfu-libusb"
+version = "0.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4e20ae81db46fd54fede9e71d06c06a382926212831cfd2f758b888e00a321d1"
+dependencies = [
+ "dfu-core",
+ "libusb1-sys",
+ "rusb",
+ "thiserror",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "displaydoc"
+version = "0.2.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "97369cbbc041bc366949bc74d34658d6cda5621039731c6310521892a3a20ae0"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.72",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "document-features"
 version = "0.2.10"
@@ -741,6 +777,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "pkg-config",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "libusb1-sys"
+version = "0.6.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "17f6bace2f39082e9787c851afce469e7b2fe0f1cc64bbc68ca96653b63d8f17"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+ "pkg-config",
+ "vcpkg",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "litrs"
 version = "0.4.1"
@@ -1065,6 +1113,12 @@ version = "0.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "439ee305def115ba05938db6eb1644ff94165c5ab5e9420d1c1bcedbba909391"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pretty-hex"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c6fa0831dd7cc608c38a5e323422a0077678fa5744aa2be4ad91c4ece8eec8d5"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro-error"
 version = "1.0.4"
@@ -1157,12 +1211,15 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "axum",
+ "dfu-libusb",
  "fern",
  "humantime",
+ "libusb1-sys",
  "log",
  "nom",
  "postcard",
  "radomctl-protocol",
+ "rusb",
  "serde_json",
  "serialport",
  "tokio",
@@ -1256,6 +1313,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "rtic-common",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rusb"
+version = "0.9.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "45fff149b6033f25e825cbb7b2c625a11ee8e6dac09264d49beb125e39aa97bf"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "libusb1-sys",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustc-demangle"
 version = "0.1.24"
@@ -1821,6 +1888,12 @@ version = "0.1.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "77439c1b53d2303b20d9459b1ade71a83c716e3f9c34f3228c00e6f185d6c002"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "vcpkg"
+version = "0.2.15"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "accd4ea62f7bb7a82fe23066fb0957d48ef677f6eeb8215f372f52e48bb32426"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "version_check"
 version = "0.9.5"
diff --git a/daemon/Cargo.toml b/daemon/Cargo.toml
index bdcee7f..f08edfe 100644
--- a/daemon/Cargo.toml
+++ b/daemon/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@ tracing = "0.1.40"
 tracing-subscriber = "0.3.18"
 radomctl-protocol = { path = "../protocol" }
 postcard = {version = "1.0.10", features = ["use-std"]}
+dfu-libusb = "0.3.0"
+libusb1-sys = "0.6"
+rusb = "0.9"
diff --git a/daemon/src/bin/trigger-dfu.rs b/daemon/src/bin/trigger-dfu.rs
index 472f081..f229d73 100644
--- a/daemon/src/bin/trigger-dfu.rs
+++ b/daemon/src/bin/trigger-dfu.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
-use std::time::Duration;
+use std::{
+    io::{self, Seek},
+    thread,
+    time::{self, Duration},
+};
 
+use anyhow::Context;
+use dfu_libusb::{Dfu, DfuLibusb};
 use postcard::{from_bytes_cobs, to_stdvec_cobs};
 use radomctl_protocol::*;
 use radomctld::logger::setup_logger;
 
-pub fn main() -> () {
+pub fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     let mut port = serialport::new("/dev/ttyACM0", 115_200)
         .timeout(Duration::from_millis(10))
         .open()
@@ -13,4 +19,28 @@ pub fn main() -> () {
     let host_msg = HostMessage::TriggerDFUBootloader;
     let msg_bytes = to_stdvec_cobs(&host_msg).unwrap();
     port.write_all(&msg_bytes).unwrap();
+    drop(port);
+
+    let context = rusb::Context::new()?;
+    let mut file = std::fs::File::open("../../firmware/radomctl-firmware.bin")
+        .context("firmware file not found")?;
+
+    thread::sleep(time::Duration::from_millis(1000));
+
+    let file_size =
+        u32::try_from(file.seek(io::SeekFrom::End(0))?).context("the firmware file is too big")?;
+    file.seek(io::SeekFrom::Start(0))?;
+
+    let vid = 0x0483;
+    let pid = 0xdf11;
+    let intf = 0;
+    let alt = 0;
+    let mut device: Dfu<rusb::Context> =
+        DfuLibusb::open(&context, vid, pid, intf, alt).context("could not open device")?;
+
+    device
+        .download(file, file_size)
+        .context("could not write firmware to the device")?;
+
+    Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/firmware/flash-dfu.sh b/firmware/flash-dfu.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9f1f583
--- /dev/null
+++ b/firmware/flash-dfu.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+cargo build --release && \
+arm-none-eabi-objcopy -O binary ../target/thumbv7em-none-eabihf/release/radomctl-firmware radomctl-firmware.bin && \
+dfu-util --alt 0 -s 0x08000000:leave -D radomctl-firmware.bin
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