RobSmithDev has been posting videos on his floppy disk cleaner for some time, and most recently compiled them and a brief blog post recap into a Hackaday project page, including brief recaps and past YouTube videos detailing the process of building, iterating upon, and exhaustive testing of this floppy disk cleaner. He calls it the "Crazy Disco Disk Cleaning Machine" due to the flashing lights and extravagant color scheme, and it's being built on the housing of an old speaker with the help of two Arduino control boards.
Seeing as floppy disks have been in circulation since 1971 and a lot of legacy software is still only available on them, it makes sense for someone to pursue the building of an ideal floppy disk cleaning machine, especially if they don't want to manually clean the disks every time themselves. While usage has obviously declined severely over the past two decades and change, floppies still serve as key pieces of computing history, if nothing else— which is likely why RobSmithDev also made DiskFlashback, which is floppy disk software for Windows.
