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Hi,
Great work here: a really creative use of low-cost/readily available materials!

I'm about to put together a system based on your work, and have a couple of questions:

1. What gauge nichrome wire did you use? Maybe you say this somewhere, but I couldn't find it.
2. I can't get either the STL or STEP files to load into FreeCAD or other viewers, any ideas? I'm planning on integrating your release into my own PCB, so I'm probably not going to use them as they are, but it would be useful to see how you laid stuff out.
3. Did you do any playing around with super-caps or other ideas for getting nice big current pulses through your nichrome? I'm planning to use my main system battery to power the release mechanism as well, and would like to use a relatively small (low current capacity) battery and a super-cap seems like a reasonable idea to give a decent high-current pulse without getting the battery close to its limits.

Great ideas in here and thanks for sharing them,

Mark.