Having gone both routes I will say that among the "knockoffs" you can find several that use the EBB Driver Board [0] which minimizes some of those compromises a

Having gone both routes I will say that among the "knockoffs" you can find several that use the EBB Driver Board [0] which minimizes some of those compromises and allows you to use the Evil Mad Scientist tools with a little bit of Python or tweaks to config files. That said the build quality and software products from EMS make it worth supporting them, to me. [0] https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/188 https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/188