Welcome to Jon's Workshop.

Modern Electronics, Brushless Motors and Drives, Engineering, Miniature Locomotives, Days in the Park


- Latest Publication - Model Engineer vol 233 No.4754 October 2024 Brushless DC Motors


Giving it all away for FREE, here you can find proven designs for traction, brushless motor drivers and control systems, hints and tips on working with ARM Cortex microcontrollers, and much more from a long time spent as a Design Consultant to the Military, Electronics and Industry more generally.

Jon Freeman is a semi-retired Electronic Design Consultant - the electronics you may rely upon.

Mechanical stuff not so good, copy at your own risk.

This is the resource for anyone interested in Brushless Motors for traction, see 'Baby Deltic' for latest work in progress. Over to you.


Videos April 2019 - 'Brushless Brutalist' on the 71/4 inch ground level track at Ashton Court




'Brushless Brutalist' pics from Ashton Court and Vivary Park


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Public Running - Vivary Park, Taunton
Public Running - Ashton Court, Bristol
Steaming Bay - Vivary Park

You are free to copy and use anything found on jons-workshop.com . Hope you find this a useful reference, please let us know if you do.


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Public Running - Vivary Park, Taunton
Driver's Touch-Screen Control Panel
Some of the Electronics

Other stuff coming soon? - Maybe


Jon Freeman B Eng Hons is a qualified Digital Systems Engineer, more at home with electronics and software development than mechanics.

Member of :

IET - Institution of Engineering and Technology

Taunton Model Engineers [web]

Bristol Society of Model and Experimental Engineers [web]

Downloads - Please Note - You can download many types of files here - pdf documents, jpg images, spreadsheets and all sorts.

Other stuff :

Signalling - a collaborative project for TME at West Buckland - where things have adopted geolocial time scales - TME Sigs site

Groovy Granny Radio test [web]