I'm very new to electronics. Been playing with Arduino for a few years but nothing serious. I've been wanting to build a circuit that does the following and need some help:
I have a wooden box that I'd like to have it function sort of like a clock but not really as all I need it to do is tick every second and maybe have a way for it to chime on the hour.
For the ticking, I was thinking of a piezo or something and maybe for the chime, I could purchase one of those greeting cards that you can record your own message onto and have it somehow triggered every 60 minutes somehow. I could find a chime sample off the internet and record that on it. How difficult does this sound? If I can just get it to tick for now then i would prefer that an LED be tied to the tick so that it lights up every time it ticks - once per second. Might be easier with the arduino but I dont want to tie it up. I'd like the unit to be standalone. I have no idea where to begin.