Growing up in Chicago, Willie Colón, was always on the go with a Game Boy Color, so Willie decided to take that iconic shape and build what is the Game Boy XL.

"I made the initial designs on Illustrator, and from there I made the front and back plates of the Game Boy," says Willie. "I took my designs to a CNC router, got them cut out, then sanded, and finally, I stained them by hand. I used a cheap TV monitor with an HDMI to connect the Raspberry Pi, and used arcade buttons for the controls on the front plate to make it functional."

"Thanks to the help of my good friend Isaac Gelman (another amazing maker), I was able to get some help on the finer details by laser cutting the D-pad and buttons. The reason I built a giant Game Boy was to see if I could do it!"