I remain unashamed. After all, the usefulness is right there and of course, the best place to snag a super cheap clock is IKEA (one of our favorite places in the world). In fact, the retailer's ...

The result, which you can see above, is made using an Ikea lantern, a skeleton clock, an ATmega328 (for Arduino compatibility), a voice recording playback IC (ISD1730), a cheap 20×4 LCD display ...