<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>DAVIS MWANGI — HTBAA Fall 2026 :: davis-mwangi</title><link>https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/davis-mwangi/index.html</link><description>I’m Davis Mwangi, an Erasmus Mundus MSc student working at the intersection of biomaterials, biosensing, soft matter, and design. My background is in computer science and embedded systems, and I’m increasingly interested in how biological manufacturing can be used to create new materials, sensing systems, and design possibilities. Through HTBAA, I’m exploring how biology can become a manufacturing platform, from microbial pigments and bio-based materials to new approaches for architecture, healthcare, and sensing. This site documents my homework, laboratory work, experiments, and project development throughout How To Biomanufacture Almost Anything, Fall 2026. Contact info Homework, Labs, and Projects See the nav bar on the left to look through my work for How To Biomanufacture Almost Anything (Fall 2026)!</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/davis-mwangi/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Week 1 HW: Final Project Ideas</title><link>https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/davis-mwangi/week-01-hw-project-ideas/index.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/davis-mwangi/week-01-hw-project-ideas/index.html</guid><description>1. What would I like to biomanufacture, and why? I would like to biomanufacture a pigment that can be formulated into paint for interior architectural surfaces, textiles and pharmaceutical products. Colour is fundamental across the pigment, paint, and coatings industries, where manufactured pigments provide the colour used in architectural paints, industrial coatings, automotive finishes, printing inks, plastics, textiles, and many other products. Paint is a complex formulation containing pigments, binders, solvents or carriers, fillers, and other additives. I would focus on biomanufacturing the colour-producing pigment itself, recovering and processing it into a usable powder or concentrate, and then incorporating it into an appropriate paint or coating formulation. In this way, the biological system would replace or complement the conventional pigment-production step. At the same time, existing formulation technologies could still turn that pigment into finished products for architectural, industrial, and other coating applications.</description></item><item><title>Final Project</title><link>https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/davis-mwangi/final-project/index.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/davis-mwangi/final-project/index.html</guid><description/></item></channel></rss>