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Amateur inventor Tao Xiangli exits his homemade submarine in a lake near Beijing. Tao built the fully functional sub (which has a periscope, depth control tanks, electric motors, manometer, and two propellers) using old oil barrels and tools bought at a second-hand market. He took 2 years to create it, at a cost of 30,000 yuan ($4,385).

Have you ever taken a hobby project as far as this man has done?

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