The heart of this project is with out a doubt the talkie library, without it, it was just another clock.
The talkie library allows a sort of text to speech, why sort off, since its a preset vocabulary and not true text to speech.  none the less, its impressive.
The library only works on  on 168 or 328 based Arduinos at 16MHz only
https://github.com/going-digital/Talkie

There for the logic board to choose was the arduino uno. 

I took a Tiny RTC module that I had here, a 16x2 I2C LCD and hooked it all up together with 3 momentary switches on a breadboard.

The first thing did was to run the example of the RTC from the library and that is to set the time on the RTC. simple and effective for what I needed at the moment 

Next I wrote a simple code that get the time and date from the RTC and display it on the screen.  that was fairly simple task as well. 

I then added a piece of code that said the current time, and was triggered by one of the buttons. 

Here is a video of how it looked at the end of this stage:
https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1674197162854496/20190831_092414.mp4


The next day I went on to add the option to adjust the time.  with position select between h/m/s and up and down buttons to set the value. 
And last I added an alarm setting and time check - and when its time to wake you up - it will just keep on saying the time every 10 seconds, till you press a button.

If you are interested  in the code there is a link to the git.

Still got a few things planned for this project, one of the more obvious one is a case.