One of my 'someday' projects is a virtual electron microscope ... so much with TEM becomes easier with hands-on experimentation, but that often isn't practical (or even safe for the instrument without someone present to guide you).

Trouble is, something like that requires a fair amount of domain knowledge to code, and the intersection of people who can code and who also understand electron microscopy sufficiently well isn't that large... but considering the cost of the instruments, it'd surely be worth doing.

You should check out labster. They have been working on this for a long time.

https://www.labster.com/