This thing is wild it’s basically like a miniaturized automatic car wash, except it hoses down floppies.
Using spinning isopropyl alcohol-coated brushes, it scrubs away all grime and buildup from the magnetic disk surface.
Once cleaned, it then blasts the disk with warm air to quickly dry it off.
All accompanied by flashing lights and music to keep you occupied, of course.
We say it resembles a car wash because of the way the floppy moves inside.
The machine goes as far as providing spoken feedback for these actions when you hit the button.
It’s certainly much more than a glorified high school project and looks polished enough to spend money on.
But it beats having to scrub those magnetic platters manually.
Smith says he designed the entire apparatus himself in TinkerCAD software and then 3D printed most of the components.
More importantly, the machine absolutely nailed the drying process.
