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For some reasons this reminds me of the somewhat common hack of soldered together resistors attached to the parallel port used as a simple DAC. Anyone else who burned their fingers doing this?



Yes! (Without the burned fingers). I used this resistor ladder digital to analogue convertor with the NO$ gameboy emulator.


The Covox Speech Thing it was called. At least the official product. But the design was so simple and the parts so cheap people started building them themselves.




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