The Team
Eric has spent the last 20+ years building software of one type or another. His day job included being part of the leadership team for the XBox One Operating System, shipping the .Net Framework V1 & 2 and various other developer tools and frameworks. He managed to publish a couple of gaming creations on the side as well: Strategic Commander for the PalmPilot and Terrarium .Net V1 (link is to latest version but it's the same basic idea).
His latest projects are the iPhone strategy game called Exospecies and a natural language A.I. experience called Perplexity.
He founded Inductor to have a chance to work full-time on his passion for games.
His latest projects are the iPhone strategy game called Exospecies and a natural language A.I. experience called Perplexity.
He founded Inductor to have a chance to work full-time on his passion for games.
Eric Zinda
Engineer and Founder
Inductors
Inductors are the greasy, gritty, cousin to the components used in digital electronics, too big to be shrunken down to fit into the miniaturized components that fit in your pocket. They are the heart of the dirty backroom that powers all the shiny, dainty devices that people love: big generators, transformers, power supplies, automotive coils. Inductors live in the slums of the electronics world, the places you find dirt, grime, noise.
They are made from copper wires and magnets (magnets!) and they usually dwarf the other circuitry around them. They are ungainly and unrefined, like something off the bench of a mad scientist. They inspire questions like “Do we still use this kind of stuff? Haven’t we found a better way?”
In a world of digital, they are wonderfully analog like a swiss timepiece. When our (most certainly) dystopian future arrives and the phones and computers stop working, the inductors will be there running the engines, the generators, the light bulbs and heaters.
They will be there waiting when we need to begin again.
They are made from copper wires and magnets (magnets!) and they usually dwarf the other circuitry around them. They are ungainly and unrefined, like something off the bench of a mad scientist. They inspire questions like “Do we still use this kind of stuff? Haven’t we found a better way?”
In a world of digital, they are wonderfully analog like a swiss timepiece. When our (most certainly) dystopian future arrives and the phones and computers stop working, the inductors will be there running the engines, the generators, the light bulbs and heaters.
They will be there waiting when we need to begin again.