I bought this 'toy' from SparkFun and was quite impressed given the
single AA power and the small size of the boost converter.
Schematic is there and in an email to them on what the part was here's
their reply.
We use a NCP1400 and here is the datasheet:
http://www.onsemi.com/pub/Collateral/NCP1400A-D.PDF--
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