Can MAX interact with GPIO pins that are on the computer it is being run on?

So I have MAX currently running on a single board computer called the MinnowBoard and I was wondering if I can get MAX to interact somehow with the GPIO pins on the board because I am trying output numbers and letters to a display for editing effects (i.e. depth, bpm, attack, release, etc. etc.) and input using physical knobs. I know you can interact with Arduino GPIO's but that's a separate thing (and I've only done that once through a basic tutorial.) If I can't get it to interact with MAX itself then I will have to get MAX to output some sort of information to Visual Studio which is currently the only other way I know how to interact with the pins. Problem is, I only know of one type of data that MAX can output, and thats midi. I'm sure there is more but I just don't know. Sorry I'm kind of a noob. Any help is greatly appreciated :)