Belgian Tech Student Crafts Record Winning “Largest Game Boy” with Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

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Ilhan Ünal, a Brussels-based university student studying multimedia and communications who works weekends as a hardware / software developer, has won a Guinness World Record for crafting the largest fully functional replica of the Nintendo Game Boy portable video game console.

The jumbo-sized handheld console measures 1.01 meters (3.31 feet) tall, 0.62 meters (2.03 feet) wide, and 0.2 meters (0.66 feet) deep. The “Largest Gameboy” is powered by a tiny Raspberry Pi single-board computer, and it’s capable of playing any cartridge released for the original Nintendo Game Boy system.

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