[gigatexal]

I almost don't want to ask as I know the answer is likely to be not great but can this also be done on mac?

[Arnavion]

If they're USB devices, you can try tweaking the docker-machine VM definition in whatever hypervisor your Mac uses, so that the devices are mounted directly in the VM and are thus available to containers.

[gigatexal]

of course! that's a good idea.