As part of their television push, they plan to launch two spinoffs of "Runway" this year: one called "Project Runway: Masters, " in which professional designers compete in fashion challenges to earn money for their favorite charities.
"We were motivated by a desire to design a system for anyone to both build with fabric in a way similar to playing with Lego and create objects that are rich with relevant context-aware computation without having to program, " said Nanda, who devised the patches for a project towards a Media Arts and Sciences masters degree.
Although universities provide individual and team project-based learning that are still difficult to replicate online, a Masters education can be taken anywhere.