Flagship Project · Field Diagnostic Multitool
A rugged handheld that fuses a multimeter, IR thermometer, GPS, radio, and a fully offline AI assistant into one field instrument. Designed, engineered, and fabricated end to end.
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01 Who I am
I'm Eli Pacciolla, a prototyping and design engineer with an industrial-design degree and a fabricator's hands. My work lives where three disciplines usually stay siloed: industrial design, embedded hardware, and metal fabrication. I take products from sketch to a working prototype I can actually trust in the field, whether that means a 3D-printed PETG enclosure or TIG-welded stainless.
Recent SFSU BS graduate. A decade of self-directed making and a professional shop background. Trilingual: English, Italian, Spanish. Based in Oakland, CA.
02 Selected Work
A rugged off-grid diagnostic multitool: custom carrier PCB, dual-processor Raspberry Pi + ESP32 architecture, an offline LLM assistant, and a 3D-printed enclosure. Designed and built end to end.
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An in-bottle microplastic filter that threads into a standard store-bought water bottle. Materials-driven design around an activated-carbon element in a stainless housing.
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A neo-futurist toy lamp built around a custom LED driver: lithium-ion power, constant-current regulation, PWM dimming, and an independent sound board. The electronics step before Nomad.
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A parametric Voronoi ring built with a Grasshopper node generator that maps a cellular pattern onto a curved surface. A study in computational design and cross-tool pipelines.
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