Jon Stanley, born in 1988, has always had a fascination with electronics and how things work. His first electrical circuit with a battery and a light bulb was made at an early age. This fascination was evident in the books he read on science, electronics, and the evolution of technologies that preceded today’s modern technologies. At eleven, Jon was given a pair of 12AU7 vacuum tubes by a friend of his parents, sparking an interest in anything with vacuum tubes. Curiosity about vacuum tubes eventually led to his discovery of vintage radios and an interest in how they worked. This fascination with vintage electronics grew to include old televisions, computers, and more. Jon joined the Vintage Radio and Phonograph Society (VRPS) in 1999. Members helped Jon repair old radios and introduced him to vanishing older technologies and their evolution to today's electronics.
In 2006 Jon graduated from Denton High School in Denton, Texas where all four years he was an active member of the Technology Club. During those four years, Jon created many electronic projects, most of which are presented in the projects page. These received first place honors at the Texas Technology Students Association (TSA) competition. In his senior year, he created two projects for his technology systems instructor: an automatic pneumatic can crusher and a Rube Goldberg project for the TSA national level competition. The Rube Goldberg from Denton High School won first place at nationals.
Jon attended Rice University in Houston, TX from 2006 to 2010 and graduated with a BSEE degree. He currently works as an electrical engineer at National Instruments in Austin, TX and is also a part-time graduate student at UT Austin.
History of this Website
This website originally began in late 1999 as "Jon's Antique Radios" to exhibit Jon's small collection of vintage radios. The website has grown over the years as more and more radios, then televisions and other miscellaneous electronic devices were added to the collection. AOL provided a website generating software that was originally used to create the website. Eventually the website began to appear inflexible to screen resolutions, text sizes, and download times due to the generator's extensive use of tables. The website went through a complete overhaul; the entire HTML was written from scratch using Notepad and this method is still used today. Most of the graphics, including project schematics, are created with Microsoft Paint and other inexpensive image editors for optimum download times. The storage space on AOL, which was only a few megabytes in size, eventually was outgrown as the content expanded. A new domain name, Electronixandmore.com, was registered in August 2002 and the website has grown in content and popularity ever since.
August 2002 - November 2006