I wish more people your age would teach themselves something like this in the summer. I remember tearing down and rebuilding computers and teaching myself Linux in the summers when I was your age. I wouldn't have picked up those skills in school otherwise.
Keep up the good work, passion and initiative like this will take you far.
I just got done hacking the non-touch Kindle 4 (the $69 one on Amazon) as a dashboard-type display and it was pretty easy to do. I have a post on my blog with how to do it if you end up going this route.
Keep up the good work, passion and initiative like this will take you far.