I’m getting issues with my application freezing after sending 2-3 commands to the Karotz. Very annoying.  I’m working my way through the code to see what’s going wrong, adding bits to catch errors and to release systems resources as soon as possible.

Following the news that a vb.net class has already been created for the Karotz I’ve now got the code (checkout the links) and I’ve started modifying my application to use the class.  There are some areas that can be improved IMHO such as the use of URLencode, UTF8 encoding and also in error checking so there is some work to be done to make it ideal.

At this stage I think I’m connecting/disconnecting OK to my Karotz but as it’s in a different building it’s hard to know for sure!

I’ve started this blog as somewhere to capture my thoughts and trials as I get to grips with writing a Windows based application for controlling the Karotz internet rabbit.  Why?  Well, why not.

I am developing the application (called KarotzShout) based upon an application I wrote in VB6 for the earlier Internet rabbit – the Nabaztag.  This new application is using Microsoft Visaul Basic Express 2010, hence using the .net framework v4.