Add merged binaries to release assets (#524)

Buildscripts/Flashing/merge.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Usage:
+#   merge.sh [chip]
+#
+# Arguments:
+#   chip - optional ESP32 SOC variant (e.g. esp32, esp32s3, esp32c6)
+#
+# Requirements:
+#   jq - run 'pip install jq'
+#   esptool.py - run 'pip install esptool'
+#
+# Documentation:
+#   https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esptool/en/latest/esp32/
+#
+
+# Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53798785
+function is_bin_in_path {
+  builtin type -P "$1" &> /dev/null
+}
+
+function require_bin {
+  program=$1
+  if ! is_bin_in_path $program; then
+      exit 1
+  else
+      exit 0
+  fi
+}
+
+# Find either esptool (installed via system package manager) or esptool.py (installed via pip)
+if ! is_bin_in_path esptool; then
+  if ! is_bin_in_path esptool.py; then
+    echo "\e[31m⚠️  esptool not found! Install it from your package manager or install python and run 'pip install esptool'\e[0m"
+    exit 1
+  else 
+    esptoolPath=esptool.py
+  fi
+else
+  esptoolPath=esptool
+fi
+
+chip=${1:-esp32s3}
+
+# Take the flash_arg file contents and join each line in the file into a single line
+flash_args="$(tr '\n' ' ' < Binaries/flash_args)"
+read -r -a flash_args_array <<< "$flash_args"
+(
+  cd Binaries || exit 1
+  "$esptoolPath" --chip "$chip" merge-bin --output merged_binary.bin "${flash_args_array[@]}"
+) || exit 1
+