5 Mind-Blowing Open-Source Projects That Let You Control Faces, Erase Spiders, and Hack Wi-Fi

Hand Controller for Your Facial Muscles

ROS‑Face is an open‑source project on GitHub (1000★) that uses the Robot Operating System to let a gamepad control human facial muscles, enabling actions like blinking or pouting by sending commands to a muscle‑actuating device.

GitHub: https://github.com/maHidaka/ros_face

Erase the “Spider‑Man” from Video

This project implements a flow‑guided video inpainting algorithm that can remove objects from chaotic scenes, demonstrated by erasing a Spider‑Man figure from video frames.

Developed by SenseTime‑HKU and SenseTime‑NTU labs, selected for CVPR 2019.

GitHub: https://github.com/nbei/Deep-Flow-Guided-Video-Inpainting

Speak a Prompt, Let the Computer Paint

Disco Diffusion is an AI‑driven image synthesis tool that generates pictures from textual prompts, such as “a lighthouse at sea” or “cyberpunk station”, producing high‑quality artwork.

GitHub: https://github.com/alembics/disco-diffusion

Additionally, T2F combines StackGAN and ProGAN to generate human faces from text descriptions using only 400 labeled images.

GitHub: https://github.com/akanimax/T2F

Control Your Computer with Your Eyes

DeepEyeControl captures eye movements via a webcam, extracts features, and predicts gaze direction to trigger actions such as adjusting volume or screen brightness.

GitHub: https://github.com/despoisj/DeepEyeControl

Wi‑Fi Cracking Toolkit

This repository documents the process of cracking WPA/WPA2 Wi‑Fi networks using tools like Airodump‑ng, Aircrack‑ng, and Hashcat, providing step‑by‑step instructions and scripts.

GitHub: https://github.com/brannondorsey/wifi-cracking