Flame imitating lighting ?

[smokiedabong]

I'm looking to build a pulsating light that imitates a flame , something like the flameless candles but much more powerful .
At first I bought some flameless candles because I was thinking to hook the oscilator of the electric candle to a transistor and power a more powerful bulb . But to my surprise they have no oscillator inside , it's actually the LED that's pulsating . Is there a component that will variate current like that so it'll pulsate an ultrabright LED or a small bulb ? Or a simple circuit that will do that without using an Arduino ?

 

[djsfantasi]

Halloween enthusiasts have many ways of accomplishing what you are looking for. I've seen those flameless candles glued/attached to a light sensitive resistor, driving the transistor for your larger bulb. For example, there is a simple trick to use a photocell and a commercial light dimmer... Here is a link to a page with many possible solutions:
Flickering Lights - Practice

 

[smokiedabong]

I have built the following circuit . IC are the special flickering LEDs and the transistors are 2N2222A . The 8 LEDs are white with 3.5V voltage drop and 25 mA . All the LEDs light up at the same intensity and flikered nicely . The problem is when I tried to measure the amps to the LEDs the reading for three of them was 2mA and for the fourth was 55mA and after a minute or so the first burned out . I checked the circuit and there are no shorts , is there something wrong with this design ?