u/Traditional_Being536

I am working with the LEGO SPIKE ultrasonic distance sensor and I am running into an issue. The sensor behaves inconsistently depending on the lighting conditions — sometimes it detects an object at a certain distance, and sometimes it completely misses it, even though the object and the distance stay the same. More over sometimes one sensor detects the object while the other misses it. On the next attempt, the first sensor detects the object while the other misses it.

I have read through the technical specifications from LEGO, but I still do not fully understand what the sensor is actually measuring and why lighting would affect it. As far as I know, ultrasonic sensors should not be affected by light at all.

Has anyone experienced this before? What could cause this behaviour, and how can I make the detection more reliable?

I have a robot that turns using a DriveBase with gyro enabled in Pybricks. Even with the gyro, the robot consistently overshoots its target angle, especially at higher speeds. I suspect it is caused by the momentum of the robot.

What are effective ways to reduce this overshooting? I already tried lowering the turn rate and acceleration, which helped, but the result is still not perfectly accurate. Is there a better approach?

I am working on a Python project using Pybricks (a MicroPython-based environment for LEGO SPIKE). I have been using AI tools to help me debug and improve my code and I am curious which AI tool other people find most useful for Python programming in general. Any recommendations?

When debugging my project, I had multiple SPIKE Primes printing data to the console at the same time. The problem was that I could only connect one SPIKE at a time, so I only had one console per run. This made it really hard to compare the output of the different devices and find the bug.

Is there a way to connect multiple SPIKE Primes to the same device simultaneously in Pybricks, so you can see all consoles at the same time?

When I export my Pybricks block program to Python, the generated code contains a lot of await wait(0) calls — at the start of every function and multiple times inside loops. Is there a way to prevent this in the block editor, or do I have to remove them manually in the Python code?