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5 Raspberry Pi usage
ing, large-scale plant phenotyping, underwater video surveillance,
closed-loop operant learning experiments, and autonomous ecosystem
monitoring. The paper also provided guidelines for its use, including
the Raspberry Pi set-up, networking, and media recording capabilities.
Jolles concluded by saying that Raspberry Pi has been widely used in
the biological domain by adding to the above-mentioned possibilities
greenhouse monitoring, fluorescent microscopy, virtual reality experi-
ments, and integrated RFID-tag solutions (Jolles, 2575).
Revathi and Sasikaladevi (2022) provide an insight into the Rasp-
berry Pi application for language identification systems (LIDs), where
the tiny computer is used for recognizing the language in which the
utterance is spoken remotely and recognized through an IoT-based
communication system.

5.2 In schools 5.2
Raspberry Pi was developed to promote the teaching of basic comput-
er science in schools. In addition, as the last ten years have proved, it
is an excellent tool for teaching because the learning curve is short
and there is an abundance of online support available for beginners.
As Fletcher and Mura (2019) reported, Raspberry Pi can be used not
only for teaching the basics of computational science, but also for
familiarizing students with scientific processes, i.e. from designing
experiments, building instruments, collecting and analysing data, to
interpreting results. We are not wrong if we say that there is no oth-
er single-board computer available that can provide so much valuable
hands-on experience for such a small investment. Our readers can find
more teaching resources on  raspberrypi.org.
Kölling (2016) pointed out that Raspberry Pi’s initial purpose was
to encourage pre-university students to engage with programming
(Pi in the name refers to the programming language Python). Kölling
gave a thorough historical account of Scratch, Python, and Java use on
Raspberry Pi, and pointed out how Greenfoot and BlueJ environments
offered new possibilities, because they are easy to program interac-
tive animated graphical applications by offering multimedia support,
which increases student engagement.

Primary and secondary education
On the raspberrypi.org web page ( The Computing Curriculum),
teachers can access free resources to help them teach computing to

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