Arduino Based cheap laser engraver help please

I found this link https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hacking-cheap-chinese-laser-cutter-vincent-teuben
This was not good. He had to replace the arduino board completely as the board was an arduino copy and not compatible with the arduino IDE at all. It would seem I am having the same issue, so unless anyone knows of a way around this I’m stuck with Benbox :sob::sob::sob: