Elipage

What Elipage does

Elipage is a personal engineering portfolio website operated by Eli Page, a Duke University mechanical engineering student and member of the Duke Motorsports Formula SAE team. The portfolio catalogs ten discrete engineering projects spanning mechanical design, embedded systems, robotics, and fabrication: a Bluetooth Bike Shifter (Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense-based wireless drive-by-wire shifting), a VR Headset Stand with VIVE branding (FEA-optimized geometry), a dh1 Full Suspension Mountain Bike with six-bar linkage kinematics and biometric sensing, a 6 DOF Harmonic Drive Cobot for pipetting (low-cost strain wave gearing with FOC stepper control at approximately $12 per motor), a Mill-Turn CNC Machine retrofitted from a manual Shopmaster El-Dorado, CNC Router Cases for Duke's Co-Lab, a handcrafted Trout Net, FSAE steering wheel and intake components, a Bash Guard chain guide, and a Fetal Heart Circulation anatomical model. Core technical capabilities include CAD modeling, finite element analysis, CNC machining, additive manufacturing (including TPU printing for strain wave gear teeth), and embedded firmware development.

The entity has no commercial operations. The source material explicitly states that 'No commercial products are being sold through this portfolio' and that the site is a 'personal portfolio showcasing engineering projects and capabilities.' There are no pricing models, no distribution channels, no revenue, no funding rounds, no incorporated legal entity, and no employees beyond Eli Page himself. The two named quasi-customers are Duke University Multimedia Studio and Duke University Co-Lab, both recipients of academic project deliverables. Marketing is limited to a personal website (elipage.net), a LinkedIn profile, and a GitHub repository (epage56). The sole contact is a personal Gmail address. Elipage functions as a personal brand and career-development tool rather than a business, with no monetization model in place.

Name

Elipage

Legal name

Eli Page

Website

https://elipage.net

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Elipage is the personal engineering portfolio of Eli Page, a Duke University mechanical engineering student, showcasing ten hardware projects spanning wireless cycling electronics, robotic arms, CNC machines, and full suspension mountain bike design. It operates as a non-commercial portfolio with no products for sale.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Elipage is a personal engineering portfolio website operated by Eli Page that showcases a series of mechanical design, embedded systems, and prototyping projects rather than selling any commercial product. The portfolio documents individual hardware builds including a Bluetooth-enabled bicycle shifter, a dh1 full suspension mountain bike frame, a 6 DOF harmonic drive robotic arm for lab pipetting, a retrofitted CNC mill-turn machine, a VR headset stand, a mountain bike bash guard, FSAE vehicle components, and a handcrafted trout fishing net. Each project demonstrates full lifecycle engineering execution from user-needs identification and CAD modeling through FEA simulation, fabrication (CNC, 3D printing, hand layup), and validation testing.

Product overview

Elipage is a personal portfolio showcasing engineering projects by Eli Page, a Duke University mechanical engineering student. The portfolio consists of individual hardware and design projects including a Bluetooth Bike Shifter (wireless electronic shifting system), VR Headset Stand, Fetal Heart Circulation Model, Mill-Turn CNC Machine, Trout Net, Duke Motorsports FSAE components, Bash Guard for mountain bikes, CNC Router Cases, dh1 Full Suspension Mountain Bike frame, and a Harmonic Drive Robotic Arm for pipetting. These are personal engineering projects demonstrating skills in mechanical design, electronics, CNC machining, and additive manufacturing rather than a unified commercial product offering.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bluetooth Bike Shifter A wireless electronic shifter for bicycles that converts mechanical cable shifting to Bluetooth-enabled drive-by-wire operation, featuring a custom linear actuator, Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense controller, and remote control. Demonstrated on personal mountain bike with 6 months of riding without adjustment.
• VR Headset Stand A custom-designed VR headset stand inspired by Joris Laarman, with arms shaped like the VIVE logo and FEA-optimized supporting geometry for durability. Created for the Duke University Multimedia Studio and validated to a perfect usability score.
• Mill-Turn CNC Machine A 2025 senior design project retrofitting a Shopmaster El-Dorado manual mill and lathe with CNC hardware and custom software for the Duke University campus machine shop.
• dh1 Full Suspension Mountain Bike An independent research project designing and building a full suspension mountain bike frame with six-bar linkage kinematics, FEA structural analysis, and a biometric sensing harness, conducted at Duke University under academic supervision.
• Harmonic Drive Cobot for Pipetting A low-cost 6 DOF robotic arm using custom harmonic drive gearboxes, impedance control, and FOC stepper motor driving, designed for automated laboratory pipetting tasks.
• Trout Net A handcrafted wooden trout fishing net created using wood lamination, CNC routing, sanding, staining, and hand-weaving techniques.
• Duke Motorsports (FSAE) Projects Formula SAE vehicle subsystem contributions including the team's first custom steering wheel, composite seat layups, dyno cage welding, and a naturally aspirated intake design for the Duke Motorsports racing team.
• Bash Guard A custom chain guide and bash guard for mountain bikes, 3D modeled and prototyped as a replacement for a broken commercial part, with field testing by personal riding and friends.
• CNC Router Cases Miniature CNC router cases created for the Duke University Co-Lab, featuring organic futuristic design with VIVE branding integration, FEA-optimized support geometry, and Tough 2000 Resin 3D-printed arms with press-fit flanged caps.
• Fetal Heart Circulation Model An educational anatomical model of fetal heart circulation created as an academic project in Fall 2021.

Quantifiable outcome

• Bluetooth Bike Shifter achieved 6 months of riding without requiring adjustment
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Dr. Rebecca SimmonscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic advisor for the dh1 Full Suspension Mountain Bike independent research study at Duke University's Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science
• Duke University - Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material SciencecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic institution providing research framework, resources, and faculty guidance for independent engineering research projects including the full suspension mountain bike development
• Duke UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEducational institution providing the ME421 Curriculum structure for design process methodology and academic framework for the Mill-Turn CNC Machine senior design project
• Duke Motorsports Formula SAE TeamminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStudent competition team where Eli Page contributed to aerodynamics and powertrain subsystems, including development of the team's first custom steering wheel

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• Core77: Design industry publication and community platform. Comparable as an ecosystem reference — Core77 hosts the kind of personal design portfolios and student project showcases that Elipage belongs to, and represents the audience/channel where a portfolio-to-consultancy pivot would be marketed.

Regional players

• Carbon Design Systems: Mechanical engineering and rapid prototyping service bureau. Comparable because Elipage's CNC, 3D printing, and lamination workflows — exemplified by the CNC Router Cases, Bash Guard, and Trout Net — replicate the kind of contract design and prototyping services Carbon offers at commercial scale.

Broad incumbents

• IDEO: Global design and innovation consultancy. Comparable to Elipage because both deliver multi-disciplinary mechanical, industrial, and embedded-systems design work; IDEO is simply a scaled, commercialized version of the design-services capability Elipage's portfolio demonstrates.
• Specialized Bicycle Components: Major bicycle manufacturer with R&D in frames, suspension kinematics, and electronic shifting. Comparable because the dh1 Full Suspension Mountain Bike project (six-bar linkage, leverage ratio optimization) and Bluetooth Bike Shifter directly tackle problems Specialized's engineering teams solve commercially.
• SRAM Corporation: Major bicycle component manufacturer (drivetrains, electronic shifting via eTap AXS). Comparable because Elipage's Bluetooth Bike Shifter and Dropper Post Actuator Integration directly target the wireless electronic shifting and dropper post categories where SRAM is a dominant incumbent.
• Frog Design: Industrial design and engineering consultancy spanning product, hardware, and brand. Comparable because the portfolio's blend of CAD modeling, FEA, prototyping, and validation mirrors Frog's integrated product-development offering at a vastly larger scale.

Direct peers

• Ammunition Group: Industrial design studio focused on consumer hardware products. Comparable because Elipage's portfolio — particularly the VR Headset Stand and Bluetooth Bike Shifter — represents the same kind of concept-to-prototype consumer hardware work Ammunition does commercially for clients.
• LUNAR Design: Independent industrial design and product strategy firm. Comparable because LUNAR operates at the same intersection of mechanical engineering, industrial design, and manufacturing know-how that Elipage's portfolio demonstrates across the bike, VR, and CNC projects.
• Bresslergroup: Product design and engineering consultancy specializing in mechanical and embedded systems. Directly comparable because Elipage's combination of CAD modeling, FEA simulation, CNC machining, and embedded firmware development is the same integrated capability stack Bresslergroup sells to commercial clients.

Emerging players

• Skyphos Technologies: Emerging low-cost cobot and robotics design house. Comparable because Elipage's Harmonic Drive Cobot for Pipetting — featuring low-cost FOC steppers and harmonic strain-wave gearing — targets the same accessible laboratory and light-industrial cobot category.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/epage56
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/elipage

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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