Not a wireless engineer? Got a C in your college class on Maxwell's equations? And you want to add wireless functionality to your next project? Don't worry about it— it's easier than you think.

The choice of wireless radio methods is based upon many factors: Data throughput, range, power consumption (battery life), antenna size/location, maturity of the technology, industry support, ...

You may have noticed that routers are some of the best designed pieces of peripheral hardware out there, from Apple's Airport Extreme to Belkin's line of sleek obelisks. That placed an enormous burden ...