A couple of months ago, like many other Karotz owners, I received an email advising that, from 18 February 2015, my Karotz would cease to function.

Sadly, in common with its parent, the Nabaztag, the concept simply doesn’t work. Economically, that is.

I mean, you’d need to have an expanding market for the devices to pay for the existing server support. While the devices are brilliant, the business model can’t work.

Unfortunately, my Karotz hasn’t worked for a couple of days now (the LED should be green when connected), so it seems that the plug may have already been pulled.

So, I’ve dusted-off an old Nabaztag and am currently installing stuff to the Raspberry Pi, which apparently makes a pretty decent replacement server.