RobSmithDev | What is this Crazy Contraption!? @RobSmithDev | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
After the Kickstart event last year I decided I wanted to create something to clean floppy disks. Sometimes they wont read because the magnetic material has come off the disk, however sometimes there's a layer of mold.

Now I could just make something simple, but why not have some fun... so I've designed the most crazy of contraptions to achieve this task.

This video, compressed to around 20 minutes, actually contains several hours of construction footage and that doesn't include the print time either! It's not exactly a small project!

👉 Part 2 (Programming and Testing): youtu.be/Xi9GQ2rxQI8
👉 Part 3 (Head to head test against hand-cleaning): youtu.be/KIELJe1ZnfI

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📖 Chapters
(00:00) What are we building?
(00:19) The plan
(00:56) Floppy Disk Tray and Control
(02:13) 🔧 Floppy Disk Spindle Grip Assembly
(02:37) Belts, Rails and Clips
(04:36) 🔧 Floppy Disk Clip Assembly
(05:10) Designing the Cleaning and Drying System
(06:50) 🔧 Assembling the Heaters/Dryers (V1)
(08:17) Re-Designing the Drying System
(08:48) 🔧 Assembling the Heaters/Dryers (V2)
(10:24) Split the Base, Add Controls, Add an Arch
(11:12) 🔧 Super Mega Assembly Montage
(15:57) LEDS, PCBs and Retrofitting a Timing Chain Fix
(16:43) 🔧 Assembling the Drive Rails and Timing Chain (with epic failure)
(17:52) Lots of Glue Later!
(18:22) 🔧 Assembling the Timing Chain (again)
(19:49) This Beast Deserves Sound
(19:49) 🔧 Amp & Speaker Mounting
(21:08) End of Part 1


🎧 Music Used
• "Raving Energy" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Voxel Revolution" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Aerosol of my Love" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Laser Groove" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Shiny Tech" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Holiday Weasel" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "Blown Away" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
• "The Builder" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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• "Tropic Fuse" French Fuse
• "Depth Fuse" French Fuse
• "Press Fuse" French Fuse
• "Tropical Fuse" French Fuse


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