Resources: Serial Communication in OSX Terminal: “I knew it had to be possible to view serial data in the OSX terminal window, but I‘m not enough of a unix geek to figure it out. Finally, a little googling told me what I needed to know. Here’s how to read and send serial data from the terminal in OSX.”

Now this has some interesting possibilities; connecting basic stamp to the mac for input and output not via midi (controlled via shell scripts / applescripts) …