Greetings!

First off... let start by saying I have NO electronics experience at all and just got started reading thru some things and looking at projects here on the site....

I recently purchased a little electronics (Mr. Curcuit) kit and have been working through doing the basic soderless curcuit projects....

I came to this project among the pages and it would serve my purposes for something that I am building....



However... the little LED's in the kit are woefully dim....
and I would like to have more then just the two lights blinking....
perhaps 2 to 3 lights per "blink" side.... if that makes sense.

If I change out the kit LED's for High Intensity (brighter) LED's
What would I need to do to set this up? Larger Power source?

Can I get by with the little 555 IC chip? (marked HA17555 0J2)

Like I said... I am a COMPLETE newb to electronics... so please be easy on the new guy

Thank you fo your help!

Cujo31

Never mind....

With the help of this site:

LED series/parallel array wizard
http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz

And some tinkering... I figured it out

http://youtu.be/gcSd58Rmxvo

Thanks!!

Cujo31

Probably the biggest factor is this: the LEDs in this kit are likely an older generation. Simply replacing them with current generation ultra bright LEDs will likely increase the brightness by a factor of 100 or more.