From an office building in Layton, the employees at T2 Engineering make T2-E Sabers, a high-end facsimile of the lightsabers from the 'Star Wars' franchise, complete with light and sound effects.
Todd Ferrell, left, and Eric Tanner show off the T2E-Sabers made at their company, T2 Engineering in Layton, on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.
Eric Tanner, owner of T2 Engineering, shows a family his company's T2E-Sabers on the vendors' floor of the FanX Salt Lake Pop Culture & Comic Convention at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. When someone came up to the booth, they were asked one question: Sith or Jedi? Eric Tanner, owner of T2 Engineering, shows the electronics at the heart of his company's T2E-Sabers, at the company's offices in Layton, on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.T2 started making lightsabers around two years ago, Tanner said, when he was looking for something to build, and Craig Nichols — who designs the hilts — suggested making soundboards for lightsabers.
The custom software for the T2E — Levi Hancock wrote the code, while Joshua Marchant and Josh Leavitt worked on software development — is innovative, Tanner said. Each polycarbonate blade contains 588 NeoPixels along its three-foot length. The soundboards make different noises when the sabers are switched on and off or put into different modes.
“We’re using that capability in our software, so that you can change things on the fly — like if you want to change your colors, sounds, or sound volumes,” Tanner said.. The T2E-Sabers can be set in various colors — including a party mode, in which the saber flashes through all of the color settings.
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