The Sunday edition of the Washington Post ran a surprisingly good article on HacDC that you'll want to check out if you've never heard of hacker spaces before, or if you're not sure that you want to get involved with one.
Video footage of the first fully viable cyborg insects has been posted to the Net by cyberneticists at Cambridge University. They've managed to tap into the visual processing neural networks of dragonflies and horseflies to use them as drones.