Inspiration
Because the plan is to build a lamp that responds to Indoor Climate factors, this seems useful for inspiration. Also controlled by an Arduino.
Hackea a lamp oriented Arduino workshop from AlluvioneMediatica on Vimeo.
Provocation
Sorry for not posting my first ideas, but I think this is also one important part that was still missing. Inspiration that looks at provocation.
Bill Viola - Ocean without a shore.
This piece is about the contradictory meaning of the altar. They are in one hand a place to pray and worship the death and in the other hand the tomb of a dead person. This piece is setup in a very small chapel where 103" screens are mounted above the altars. It shows how thin the layer between life and death is by letting people in black and white (almost ghostlike) walk through a water curtain to get from the dead to the living (high resolution full colour image, very detailed). It should make people think about their own mortality. I also like the provocation of the technology that is implemented in the chapel's most sacred place, the altar.
Home inspiration
Amongst the standard sites I check every day is the howstuffworks website. On this was an interesting atricle about 'wacky home inventions'. These should increase the indoor living comfort. Which I think is related to the project in a wider scope.
Most of them are just hilarious, but there is an idea behind them, probably 
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Pocock, Jennifer. "Top 10 Wacky Inventions for the Home." 29 July 2008. HowStuffWorks.com. 23 March 2010.
Random Inspiration
Crispin Jones - An Invisible Force
One can insert a card with a question. Press it down in the metal slots which gets hotter and hotter. One will have to endure pain to see the answer.
Critical Artifacts
Examples of critical artifacts
James Auger, Smell+
Susana Soares, Vegetarian Tooth
The Curious Home
A project by Bill Gaver about the Curious Home. He is looking at the influence of ludic technological objects in a home setting.
The Plane Tracker & Local Barometer
The History Tablecloth
The Drift Table
The Key Table