For my best friend's 50th birthday a couple years ago, I decided to make him a Clock/Radio/Sound effects that looks something like the time circuit display in Back to the Future, since he's a huge fan of those movies. Here is a snapshot of where it is today. I've been adding new functionality to it and fixing things on it every year since.
Components
1×
STM32F411RE Nucleo
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MCP23017
I2C Input mux for the keypad
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Adafruit SoundFX board
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Cheap power supply board for 5v/4A supply off Aliexpress
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Sparkfun level shifter boards
For the MAX7219s. The ICM7228s didn't need them.
Make sure you have 1.21 gigawatts to power the flux capacitor! ;)