[Kevin Darrah] recently went out to dinner at a restaurant that was using some cheap LED candles (yuck ... notice the patterns programmed into the fake flame repeat over and over again.

and replaced the controller with an ATtiny85 for a more realistic flicker. When [Roger] opened up one of the candles, they found an IR sensor for the remote, a driver chip, and of course ...

I thought they would look ugly and fake, which most flameless candles do, but they seem quite ... two AA batteries powering it up to create the flickering movement. The light that emits from ...