UC Santa Barbara’s Phy Dept guys has ***invented*** a Rpi based, 24/7, pandemic/zoom friendly, affordable, remote control lab, with stepping/servo motors, camera, 3-D printer, real potentometer knobs, ... 

So the students, instead of playing video games or watching YouTube at 2 in the morning, they  can hop online and push a button or turn a knob for greater precision in their measurement of Planck’s constant, .. in short, more power to them. Students can propose, execute and report on a physical measurement they could perform on their own.

In short, it is not simulation or computer model tool. "It is the real thing". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDSnjjdGh5M