In this project I have shared my personal motivation and learned a lot during the development started in february ´18.
AWTRIX is a smart WiFi-capable clock based on an ESP8266.
- Time and date via NTP server
- Current weather via Openweathermap
- Simulation of a virtual "pet" with different emotions
- Game of Life
- Youtube Counter- Facebook Counter
- Twitter Counter
- DHT Senor reading
- Fire simulation
- Play Pong or Snake with Appmore functions:
- Control and configuration via BLYNK, MQTT, UDP or Android App
- Automatic brightness control via LDR
- easy Firmware update via WiFi, Web

I won't go into much detail here and refer to my documentation instead:
https://docs.awtrix.com/
Here you will find all the information and links you need to build your own Awtrix.