Is this forum dead now?

It often gets a little slow around the holidays.

looks like you dont post enough for others to know your still active ;^P 81 posts in 4 years. I only been here 1 year more and got ya beat by well over 2,000 lol. ya get out of life what ya put into it.

I still lurk. But our company's SD3 got fuxxored a bit a few years ago, and I haven't had a chance to diagnose it. We picked up a FlashForge Creator Pro to continue making the part that we initially bought the SD3 to output, and it's been (knocks on wood) pretty trouble-free.

I initially signed up here to gain insight into common SD issues and to learn more... Now that I'm a bit more seasoned, my visits dropped. But I do occasionally pop in just to see what's going on, and am glad this place is still going!

But yeah, I also noticed that it has slowed down.

There are other 3d printing forums out there . I kind of lurk on the folger tech forum.
As far as DIY filament making I do not know you need to do a google search.
And as far as the interest in DIY filament making i do not know if it is on the rise or waning.

When a kg of filament is below $20 a kilo more or less it is hard to justify a filastuder. Especially when one has precious little shop room.

Well there are many of us who have built their machines fromn scratch, not a flastruder.
And pellets in bags of 25kg are a lot less. i pay about $5-6 per kg incl masterbatch.

then there are the satisfaction of doing it by yourself, and be able to experiment with colors and materials.

I have several things I want to do, for instance what would happen if I used a Palette to do print a mostly black object and then custom made filament using: https://justpigments.com/collections/ch … ica-powder as a very thin outer shell of the object. 

Catch is its 40 degrees out in my unheated garage - in the middle of the day.  Experimenting is for fun, and fun requires the ambient temperature involved be >60-65.

I have a Palette 2, perhaps it has a larger buffer or it just plain splices faster but I already have had it do different colors in the same layer successfully.

The outer layer would be translucent.  Chamelion pigments are made of a mostly transparent material that need a dark color behind them to work, so in a more transparent resin like 3D850 and in a thin shell (eg tell slicer to use an extrusion width of maybe .3) I think the effect might work.