diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 660b3a05..4dfd397b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -36,3 +36,6 @@
 
 # CMake files
 build
+
+# Examples
+examples/*/*.gz
diff --git a/examples/mnist/Makefile b/examples/mnist/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7e4e812f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/mnist/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+.PHONY: all clean download
+
+all: download
+
+download: train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz t10k-images-idx3-ubyte.gz t10k-labels-idx3-ubyte.gz
+
+%.gz:
+	wget http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/$*.gz -O $@
+
+clean:
+	rm -f *.gz