Or perhaps you can combine both worlds, which is what [oldmaninSC] did with his digital clock ... with each LCD via I2C, two TCA9548A I2C multiplexers are connected to an Arduino, along with ...

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 ...