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About Us

Argon 40 is a group of self-proclaimed electronics geeks and enthusiasts with a passion to make things happen and share our creations.

Mission Argon ONE:

Bring the Raspberry Pi Closer to Home



Looking back at our years of tinkering and playing with the Raspberry Pi we took upon ourselves to adapt the mission of bringing the power of digital making and computing into the hands of the people, especially for the younger generations.

And, with over 19 Millions single board computers sold, the Raspberry Pi started a mini revolution, a movement among makers to create exciting projects in robotics, gaming, home automation and IoT just to name a few, was set in motion

However, we still see a gap in the penetration of this versatile computer into the homes of most people. Our solution, to make this mini computer more newbie friendly and less intimidating compared to its current barebones form factor. A design appealing to us mere mortals.

Thus, the Argon ONE mini computer was born. Its features supplements the strengths of the most advanced Raspberry Pi while maintaining a small footprint with its minimalist design that will still suit the requirements of most Raspberry Pi users.

Argon ONE:



The sleek design of Argon ONE aims to complement existing fixtures and appliances inside your home whether may it be in your living room, bedroom, game room, or your workshop.

In the design process, our top priority was to maintain the access to the powerful programmable GPIO pins. We managed to achieve this while keeping our desired form factor by placing a magnetic removal top to cover the pins while not in use.

We ensured that all cables run at the back of Argon ONE to reduce the clutter and make day-to-day operations manageable like any regular desktop computer. Carefully placed ports keeps access to all existing functionalities of the Raspberry Pi.

Like any desktop computer users want to push this single board computer to its limits. In doing so the temperature of the SOC (system on a chip) reaches close to its fail safe temperature of 80 degrees celsius. Our solution, incorporate in the case both an active and passive cooling.

The aluminum-alloy enclosure, not only brings external protection and esthetics, it also acts as a heatsink for the SOC providing overall safeguard to the Raspberry Pi.

Additionally, we have incorporated an internal fan to aid internal-external air circulation thru the vents in Argon ONE. Current to the fan is controlled through the power PCB so it does not draw from the Raspberry Pi and it cuts off once the shutdown is initiated.

Lastly, to better protect your files and projects and the Raspberry Pi itself we have added a proper shutdown circuit that will cut the power in the system.

With the script installed in Raspbian, the power button will initiate a soft shutdown, then subsequently cut the power on the Rasberry Pi to complete the process.

Easy Assembly

Argon ONE assembles in four easy steps.

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